Posted in Geekery on Mar 12th, 2010
The packaged Zenoss for Debain will monitor httpd out of the box but does not look for the apache2 process. To monitor Apache 2.2, you need to add a similar Processes class as httpd has. Navigate to Processes>Apache and then select Add process. Type apache2 as an ID (it’s just a unique identifier) and select [...]
Posted in Geekery on Feb 28th, 2010
Running Jira on FreeBSD, I wanted to be able to pick up email from a Google Apps account and feed it in as tickets. This is normally a straight-forward process but I was getting these errors in the Jira logs: 1javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 23rd, 2009
I recently needed to move a very simple ASP site to Apache for archival purposes. There was nothing of importance that the dynamic ASP was doing and as it was just for an archive, it made the most sense to turn it into simple HTML (as the whole site probably should have been in the [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 16th, 2009
I wanted to convert some high resolution TIFFs that Lisa took of Bill’s paintings recently and came up with this quick and dirty conversion into JPEG: 1for i in *.tif; do tifftopnm "$i" | pnmtojpeg > "${i%.tif}.jpeg"; done That’ll convert all .tif files in a directory to JPEG (using default processing setting). I didn’t have [...]
Posted in Geekery on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve had Evolution hang on start up a few times lately, I keep forgetting what I’ve done to fix it so I’m noting it here. All I’ve needed to do is to kill evolution-data-server and try to start Evolution again, so to fix this issue: 1killall evolution-data-server-2.28
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