My name is John Billings. I'm from Indiana, USA but somehow ended up in Cambridge, New Zealand.
I've been using Linux for over 10 years starting with Red Hat 5. During the Woody years I converted over to Debian, but currently using Ubuntu on my desktop. I like all Linux distro's and even BSD too.
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Saturday, 15. December 2007
This blog has some good tips about parsing rails logs with sed/awk.
http://www.caboo.se/articles/2007/7/2/sed-awk-for-rails-devsI'll do something like
tail -1000 production.log | grep ^Completed | awk ' {print "[" $3 "] - " $0 }' | sort -n | tailJust to see some recent requests.

Sunday, 23. September 2007
postfix log analyzer 
this looks useful, but no longer maintained?:
http://traveler.com.br/blogs/ze/postdandee/I'm looking for other postfix log analyzers there are a list of them here:
http://www.postfix.org/addon.html#logfile 
Sunday, 24. June 2007
upgrade amavisd on Dapper 
Do you get a message like this after a Dapper security update:
/etc/init.d/amavis start
Starting amavisd: Found old config file /etc/amavis/amavisd.conf,
amavisd-new will NOT be started for safety reasons.
Please update the amavisd-new configuration, as the
old configuration is not automatically converted.
Remove the /etc/amavis/amavisd.conf to re-enable amavisd-new.
When i looked /etc/amavis, I see a file:
amavisd.conf.disabled
Should be disabled right? Apparently not. I just moved it out to /root, and then amavis started up using the new configuration in /etc/conf.d

Wednesday, 09. May 2007
Dapper to Feisty dist upgrade 
Goes smoothly as documented here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FeistyUpgradesManualGet used to the idea of running dist-upgrade more than once.
If your using trac, python-clearsilver will give you problems. Just remove python-clearsilver and python2.4-clearsilver, which will remove trac, and then reinstall trac. It will grab python-clearsilver as a dependency.
root@ztaylor:~# aptitude install trac
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Building tag database… Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
python-setuptools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python-clearsilver python-setuptools trac
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 208kB/761kB of archives. After unpacking 3322kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information… Done
Get:1
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main python-setuptools 0.6c5-1ubuntu1 [208kB]
Fetched 208kB in 1s (207kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package python-clearsilver.
(Reading database … 40885 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-clearsilver (from .../python-clearsilver_0.10.3-4.1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package python-setuptools.
Unpacking python-setuptools (from .../python-setuptools_0.6c5-1ubuntu1_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package trac.
Unpacking trac (from .../archives/trac_0.10.3-1_all.deb) …
Setting up python-clearsilver (0.10.3-4.1) …
Setting up python-setuptools (0.6c5-1ubuntu1) ...Setting up trac (0.10.3-1) ...