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Comment on Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris net5501 by Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:21:02 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I appreciate the time you took to write it. It saved me a huge of amount of time. Thank you.

Comment on Removing the ^M (carriage return) character from text files by Salar E

Salar E — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:27:49 +0000

What does the perl -pi -e ’s/\cM//’ filename.ext line do? I can’t seem to find any information on any of the tags (ex. -pi -e).

Thanks!

Comment on PlanetSysAdmin.com goes IPv6 by Markus

Markus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:13:30 +0000

Any good howto’s for ipv6?

Comment on Removing the ^M (carriage return) character from text files by Markus

Markus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:12:17 +0000

Easiest is to use dos2ux filename > newfile

Comment on Cacti and RRDTool font sizes by David R. Hedges

David R. Hedges — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:38:49 +0000

Thanks for the tip. After upgrading my debian installation from Etch (4.0) to Lenny (5.0) (cacti version 0.8.6i-3.5 to 0.8.7b-2.1), all my fonts appeared in something like Times New Roman.

Although the paths you noted did not exist on my system, your post led me to:
$ locate -i ‘*DejaVuSansMono*’
which turned up various results, including:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
…
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf

After plugging in these paths, my graphs seem *mostly* back to normal, though not quite what they used to be. “Columns” in the legend don’t seem to line up correctly: http://www.p14nd4.com/images/20090217-1226-lenny-cacti-rrd.png , but I can live with this much more easily than I could live with the ugly font. Thanks!

Comment on Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris net5501 by kb.hurricane-ridge.com / Bookmarks for January 17th from 09:41 to 09:41

kb.hurricane-ridge.com / Bookmarks for January 17th from 09:41 to 09:41 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:48:02 +0000

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Comment on Removing the ^M (carriage return) character from text files by Tom W

Tom W — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:49:15 +0000

That little Perl snippet was a lifesaver, thanks!!

Comment on Planet SysAdmin - SysAdmin blog aggregator by Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:01 +0000

Excellent feed! I really enjoy it every day.

I’ve got a blog dedicated to small-infrastructure systems administration. Please check it out and add it if you feel it belongs.

http://standalone-sysadmin.blogspot.com

Comment on Planet SysAdmin - SysAdmin blog aggregator by Brian Jones

Brian Jones — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:14:36 +0000

Hi all,

Just found your site while looking for domain names to run a site just like planetsysadmin

I think the content on my blog is a good fit for your feed. I write about a mix of development and system administration, and where those things overlap. My blog feed is here:

http://www.protocolostomy.com/feed

And the sysadmin category feed is here (if you find that the more dev-centric stuff isn’t appropriate)

http://www.protocolostomy.com/category/sysadmin/feed

Thanks!

Comment on Planet SysAdmin - SysAdmin blog aggregator by Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:17:57 +0000

Hi! I just started a blog specifically targeted at sysadmins of smaller networks. It’s available at

http://standalone-sysadmin.blogspot.com/

I think it would fit really well with your readers (and I read your collection enough that I link to you in the side-bar of my site)

Take a look and let me know if you’ll include it. Thanks!