First thing in the morning I like to have a quick browse through the Logwatch output for all my servers (or at the very least the ones I know are critical / the ones that have been giving me trouble) and for the most part the data is always quite concise and extremely useful. However there comes a point when erroneous activity makes your 15kb / 30kb Logwatch email start creeping up towards the 500kb / 700kb sort of size and usually its junk. The best way to sort this is by adding additional scripts/configuration to your standard Logwatch setup. I was finding that the main culprits were ...

I've been extremely busy moving house for the past few days so haven't had much time to catch up on stuff but here are a few things that you might find useful: Nick Halstead has just done a best of assembleron post. A good place to check out developer / IT Management info and discussion I've finally got round to purchasing a DNS Stuff membership. If you are interested in DNS or are involved in Systems / Networks administration and you haven't discovered these guys yet then you are in for a treat! IBM's take on the Linux kernel. If any of you reading this are in the Reading / Berkshire ...

How to get your MP3's playing The 'Perfect' Fedora 7 setup (I wouldn't totally agree but hey) As always my NVidia 6600GT caused problems and in order to utilize the graphical setup I had to add vga=791 to the initial command line arguments for setup. With that done and following Mauriat Miranda's steps for installing the NVidia drivers I had dual screen back up in minutes. NTFS-3G was installed by default which was nice. Despite the previous warning someone has successfully migrated from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7 via Yum Although I love the new shininess there was one little ...