Archive for August, 2007

Bacula Client 2.2.0-1 for Mac OS X

Friday, August 24th, 2007

I’ve posted a minor update to my Bacula client packages for Mac OS X. Just some config file tweaks. If you’re already running my 2.2.0 version, there is no need to upgrade.

Bacula Client 2.2.0-1 Intel
Bacula Client 2.2.0-1 PowerPC

Akismet and User Accounts

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I am once again allowing anonymous posting of comments in conjunction with the Akismet spam plugin for wordpress. Hopefully this strikes a nice balance between making the site accessible to users and preventing spam.

We will see…

Tar and Restore Files Over SSH

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

This will be pretty obvious to seasoned *nix admins but it’s possible to tar/gz/bzip files over an ssh connection onto a remote file system. Read on to find out how…

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Bacula Client 2.2.0 for Mac OS X

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I’ve posted some updated binary installers (zipped .pkg files) for bacula 2.2.0 for Mac OS X (the file daemon only). There are installers for both PowerPC and Intel. Be aware that they are statically linked for Mac OS X 10.4 only.

Please also note that these installers will overwrite your bacula-fd.conf file so make a backup before running. I hope you all find them useful.

Bacula 2.2.0 Intel
Bacula 2.2.0 PowerPC

crypt.pl: crypt() Strings with Salt

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Here is a short perl script to run a string through crypt() with a user defined two character salt. Enjoy!

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Pretty Code with semGeSHiCodeFix

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

In the quest for nicer formatting of code, I installed the semGeSHiCodeFix wordpress plugin. Blocks of code should now look like this:

while true; do { $SOMETHING }

Neat, huh? You can get the plugin here

Registration Required

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Well, I knew it would happen pretty quickly and it did. Comment spam has started flooding in so I’m now requiring users to register before they can post comments.

I hate to add barriers to communication but until I find a better way to prevent spam this is the way it must be. Sorry :-(