mikerochford.com » Linux http://mikerochford.com/blog Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:27:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Naigos Plugin: Check for packages to update in Debian/Ubuntu http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/11/05/naigos-plugin-check-for-packages-to-update-in-debianubuntu/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/11/05/naigos-plugin-check-for-packages-to-update-in-debianubuntu/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:13:47 +0000 mrochford http://mikerochford.com/blog/?p=97 Over the years I have manages a lot of systems, mostly debian based. The thing I really hate about having a lot of standalone systems is updating software. I am really bad at keeping track of new updates and I really dont want to have a cron script running to send me a email every day. Below is a script I used as a plugin for nagios.

The Script: check_for_updates.pl

]]> http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/11/05/naigos-plugin-check-for-packages-to-update-in-debianubuntu/feed/ 0 Changing the I/O timeout on your SCSI disk http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/07/23/changing-the-io-timeout-on-your-scsi-disk/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/07/23/changing-the-io-timeout-on-your-scsi-disk/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:52:15 +0000 mrochford http://mikerochford.com/blog/?p=77 Changing your I/O timeout for your SCSI disks are rare. When you are running VMWare that houses the guest OS on a NFS/SAN mount you need to change the timeout. If you dont you will run into a mess with your guest OS. You will try running a snapshot and browsing your file system and bam its locks up. Below is what you need to change in your udev rules to change it.

Location: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules


SUBSYSTEM=="scsi" , SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 60 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout'"
SUBSYSTEM=="scsi" , SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 190 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout'"
SUBSYSTEM=="scsi" , SYSFS{type}=="1", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 900 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout'"

]]> http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/07/23/changing-the-io-timeout-on-your-scsi-disk/feed/ 0 Making your own ringtones for your Iphone (mp3 to m4r) http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/05/26/making-your-own-ringtones-for-your-iphone-mp3-to-m4r/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://mikerochford.com/blog/2009/05/26/making-your-own-ringtones-for-your-iphone-mp3-to-m4r/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:46:37 +0000 mrochford http://mikerochford.com/blog/?p=7 I have done much searching on the internet on how to convert mp3 files to Itunes m4r files. I really dont like using Itunes if I dont have to so I thought I would write something that will use my unix box.

This perl script will convert most mp3s to m4r.

I used 4 applications that can be installed on any GNU based system.

  • mp3info – An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
  • mp3splt – Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.
  • Mplayer
  • Faac – FAAC is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder, it is licensed under the LGPL license.

or if you are running debian/ubuntu:

apt-get install mp3info mp3splt mplayer faac
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