New “SSH Mastery” review posted

By Alexander Leidinger.

I have the print layout basically finished. The print cover is in process, and the index is underway. Hopefully ordering print proofs later this week.

“SSH Mastery” now #1 on Smashwords

I even beat out the “Fat Loss Bible.” Happy Birthday to me!

And thanks to everyone who has bought and enjoyed the book. I can now say I’m a “#1 bestseller” with a straight face.

first long-form review of “Vicious Redemption”

At Electric Well.

SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords

Smashwords is an ebook retailer that sells books in ten different electronic formats in one purchase. If you want a book in .pdb for your Palm Pilot, in PDF for your laptop, and epub for your Nook, that’s where you go.

I just saw this in their best-seller list.

I’m at #2 site-wide, right . . . → Read More: SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords

FreeNAS 8.0 and SNMP

Today, I learned that FreeNAS 8.0′s SNMP isn’t quite all one could hope for. The good news is, the bugs will be fixed in 8.0.1. I’m posting this in the hope of saving others the annoyances I had.

To SNMP query a FreeNAS 8.0 host, you must force the client to use SNMPv2.

# snmpwalk . . . → Read More: FreeNAS 8.0 and SNMP

awk and access.log

I keep forgetting about the single quotes in this incantation. Writing it down won’t improve my memory, but I’ll know where to look it up.

To see a field (e.g. referers) from Apache’s combined access.log:

# cat /var/log/apache/logname | awk ‘($11 !~ /sitename|\-/) {print $11}’

This strips out references from the site itself, plus entries . . . → Read More: awk and access.log

new personal Web site

Over the last fifteen years or so, hand-coded HTML has transformed from “how it is done” to “a baroque eccentricity” to “an amusing peccadillo” to “what is WRONG with you, dude?”

My personal Web site, http://www.michaelwlucas.com, has now been updated. It’s as boring as ever, except for the awesome art. Let me know if you . . . → Read More: new personal Web site

Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS diskless filesystem

A diskless server needs a copy of the operating system files, served from an NFS server. The Ubuntu docs have a general-purpose tutorial on diskless systems, which suggests copying the files from your NFS server. My NFS servers are not Ubuntu boxes. Also, I don’t want to copy from a live system; too many things . . . → Read More: Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS diskless filesystem