nwdiag generates a network-diagram image file from a .diag text file logically describing the network http://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/ nwdiag is intended to generate network diagrams that are embedded in larger documents; not for generation of standalone documents. Therefore there is no provision for adding document metadata, such as Name, Author, Date. However, you can add an infobox (a…
I'm now in the position of being one of the senior administrators for my employer's software in their managed software as a service division, and on a team that has seen a great deal of growth in the past year. This has meant I had to undertake mentoring of the junior admins. I've learned…
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Jesse Trucks, GCUX
jtrucks@lopsa.org
Director
http://lopsa.org
In January I assumed the Secretary duties from Jesse Trucks, which has pushed me over the promised 5 hours per week involvement. Most of that was learning how to do Wiki text and also transcribe our meeting minutes from recordings. (Learning MediaWiki was a plus since at $WORK I had started using that for…
Many know that my son has been helping administrate a Minecraft server. This server has enough people, that administrating the server means working at the Linux prompt level, looking at top output, editing configuration files, restarting application processes when the watchdog process fails, etc. He also deals with the end users, helping them use the…
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Here is an example of feeding query output into gnuplot without leaving psql: # psql -U postgres psql (8.4.15) Type “help” for help. postgres=# t Showing only tuples. postgres=# a Output format is unaligned. postgres=# f ‘ ‘ Field separator is ” “. postgres=# select * from example; 1 1 2 2 3 3 4…
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Getting an strace sample programmatically (non-interactively): dynamically attaching to a running process and detaching from it 10 seconds later. May be used to check if a process is hung, or what is it doing? #!/bin/sh … rm -rf strace.out strace -o strace.out -p $PID & sleep 10 pkill -int strace # send SIGINT…