I had to install streamtranscoder on a CentOS box recently.  I didn't have time to roll a RPM to install it properly.  Here's install instructions if you want to hack it together as well.  Reminder:  Installing from source on a Re... (more)

Upper-case letters/spaces are annoying to deal with in Linux.  We're caching some filenames to avoid hammering servers for software packages.  It's handy to remove spaces/uppercase letters to control potential errors/configurations/links.&n... (more)

It can be invaluable to a sysadmin to keep track of how much space users are taking up.  One of our servers hosts user accounts who sometimes forget to clean things out.  I wrote a handy one-liner to dump out the rascals involved, sort them... (more)

Short howto on installing NTOP on CentOS.  I'll rewrite this with compiling it as a rpm later.    mkdir /tmp/ntop    cd /tmp/ntop    yum install -y gdbm-devel libpcap-devel zlib-devel rrdtool-devel su... (more)

Short howto on installing NTOP on CentOS.  I'll rewrite this with compiling it as a rpm later.mkdir /tmp/ntopcd /tmp/ntop yum install -y gdbm-devel libpcap-devel zlib-devel rrdtool-devel subversion \libtool automake autoconf makesvn co https://s... (more)