Monthly Archives: May 2010

Henry: a co-worker, networker, and friend. You will be missed

I don’t have much to say about the loss. Henry Sieff was a bril­liant net­work, secu­rity engi­neer and friend.

Notes on Zenoss ZenPacks

Recently I was build­ing a Zen­Pack for Zenoss. The Zen­Pack included an Event Com­mand which exe­cuted a cus­tom script. I wanted to store the cus­tom script in the Zen­Pack and I didn’t want to do any­thing other than have proper script depen­den­cies in place for it to work. Cus­tom scripts can be placed in $ZENHOME/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.CompanyName.Package/Zenpacks/CompanyName/Package/lib but

bash history-fu

I came across a new blog (seems to have come on-line in March) http://www.epoxyjournal.com. One of the entries was about how to clear com­mand his­tory. Every­one has inad­ver­tently pasted or typed some­thing into the wrong shell. Some­times its worth­while to clean up after your­self and some­times its not. I fig­ured I would offer a sug­ges­tion

Archive creation fail

I just down­loaded EMC Net­worker client for a 32bit linux box. The file I down­loaded was nw74sp5_linux_x86.tar.gz. Of course when I go to extract it .… Umm not in gzip format .…

New Networking Podcast

They are only on their 3rd episode, but its been good lis­ten­ing so far. If your into net­work­ing check it out.  http://packetpushers.net/