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  • killing a process in TCL

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    How to kill a process in TCL with no binary or tclx

  • Sneak peek of top graphs

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    Jim has been busy as part of the procps-ng team that looks after top. Basically all the changes you find in top from around 2.7 or so are by him. Not satisfied enough with fixing top, making it faster and showing more fields, he has given us CPU and memory graphs. He also thinks I…

  • A python utf gotcha

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    This one had me stumped for a while: # -*- coding: utf-7 -*- import datetime from sqlalchemy import ForeignKey, Column from sqlalchemy.types import Integer, Unicode, Boolean, DateTime default_due_date = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=30) Syntax error found on last line. Hmm, bring up a python interpreter and type the last line in with the imports. Works fine.…

  • WordPress update needed for stable too

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    Yesterday I mentioned that wordpress had an important security update to 3.8.2  The particular security bugs also impact the stable Debian version of wordpress, so those patches have been backported.  I’ve uploaded the changes to the security team so hopefully there will new package soon. The version you are looking for will be 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u2 and…

  • psmisc 22.21 Released

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    Today as it was raining and I couldn’t do much gardening, psmisc version 22.21 was released. The files are located up on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/psmisc/files/latest/download or at your favorite distro repository soon.  Once again, thanks to all patch submitters, bug reports and translators for all their help in getting this out. Apologies to the translation…

  • jffnms 0.9.4

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    JFFNMS version 0.9.4 was released today, this version fixes some bugs that have recently appeared in previous versions. The triggers rules editor had a problem where some of the rules clicked off the triggers would not appear or could not be edited correctly. Most of the Admin screens have the ability to sort the rows.…

  • Debian's procps 3.3.9

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    While the upstream procps which was released last week has a new pidof, the Debian package will continue to not have that binary and the Debian sysvint-utils package will continue to have that file. That stops any messy procps splits and putting one part into Essential etc. This may mean that one distributions pidof doesn’t…

  • procps-ng 3.3.9

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    Procps version 3.3.9 was released today.  As there has been some API changes and fixes which means the library has changed again.  There is a fine balance between fixing or enhancing library functions and keeping the API stable, with the added problem it wasn’t a terribly good one to start with. Besides the API change,…

  • XBMC with MythTv

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    I have had MythTV running on my server for quite some time. Once I got past the weird problems you often have with the local ABC channel, it has worked very well. One tip, put the recordings into their own partition. MythTV will happily fill it and deleting files only marks them for deletion. This…

  • Quieting dbus

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    I run a program called logcheck which regularly scans the logfiles looking for “interesting things”. One of these interesting things (to logcheck, not to me at first) was dbus complaining about mythtv.  The logs look something like this: Nov 17 05:08:18 elmo dbus-daemon[1621]: dbus[1621]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.236″ (uid=999 pid=3669…