CyanogenMod 10.1 for the GT-i9305 from source
March 14, 2013
CentOS 6.3 Breakages on patching
March 5, 2013
Not much happening lately. Recently updated my Microserver to the latest patch revisions for CentOS 6.3, and my that was fun.
BusPirate AVRDude Patch Updated!
January 11, 2013
Quota Usage Checking with Nagios
January 10, 2013
My ISP (Adam Internet) supplies an XML usage page, which uses Basic authentication. You sign up on their admin page for a token, and you then use those credentials (username:token) as the creds when fetching the usage page, and you get back a whole bunch of XML. There’s various smartphone tools to use that data. What I wanted was a Nagios check, and also for perfdata to go into pnp4nagios from that based on my Internet usage.
Getting data from HWiNFO64 to Nagios
January 1, 2013
As discussed, I recently setup Nagios for monitoring on my home network. On my main PC, I use HWiNFO64 for keeping track of CPU temperatures and fan speeds. I wanted a way to get HWiNFO data into Nagios, and also into Cacti for graphing performance data (in particular, temperatures).
Adding messages to dmesg
January 1, 2013
The dmesg log on CentOS frequently is missing timestamps. While it can probably be added, what I wanted to do was add a mark to dmesg every few hours so I’d know how the passage of time went with it. This can be done with a simple cron job in /etc/cron.d, like this;