270Blog

Today I’ve been playing with the Page Speed Analyzer in Firebug, and having a real hoot. Ok, perhaps that is a bit of an overstatement, but it is interesting to see what the differences are. More to come…

The next time you’re trying to escape from a ‘man’ page, try simply pressing the ‘q’ key, for ‘quit’…. so simple, and so unsearchable.

Note to self: before playing with scripts that alter file permissions, groups or owners, make sure you have a backup. Really, this is important.

..Doesn’t mean you can just blow up the server

I missed posting yesterday, but I had a bit going on. The lady and the boy are off to FL for a couple of weeks to visit w/the grandparents. I miss ‘em already.

Today I discovered that my web server’s EXIM daemon had gone down about a week ago. Not such a big deal, as I don’t use that as a primary mail server anyway; but there was still a problem. There’s a handy utility on the server which montiors a variety of activity, and (wait for it) sends an email when things aren’t working. You’re starting to see where this path is going, aren’t you? Not only does it notify you via email, it keeps notifying you every five minutes by email that the email daemon is at zero functionality.

Hence the recursive cursing tag.

So, I was finally, after some tinkering, able to get all 2500 notifications out the door. So I could delete them.

My question is: why would you set up a mail daemon monitor to send an email on a fail condition? Isn’t that like a warning light to indicate low-visibility conditions? Or a beeper to indicate excessive noise?

A better question is: has anyone hacked the cPanel server monitor script before? I don’t even know what language it’s written in. Stay tuned, you might see the answer in a week or two right here.