I found out the hard way that the monitoring tool Cacti does not really support rrdtool 1.3.2. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround. Edit cacti/lib/rrd.php and comment out line 1685: // return “–font ” . strtoupper($type) . “:” . $size . “:” . $font . RRD_NL;
After using and tinkering with MythTV for over a year, a small pile of adjustments have stacked up that have been made to both the backend and the frontend that have improved performance. These can’t be listed as must have’s, but they definitely are good to have. Some of these may seem obvious, but not
While at a previous employer, I came across an interesting article in the now-defunct SysAdmin magazine which covered, soup-to-nuts, setting up a rather basic OpenVPN server and NSIS-based Windows client package. It wasn’t long before I got hip deep in to customizing the Windows installer NSI script, and tweaking the server configuration. Eventually, I configured