weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

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A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

While I was trying to copy a load of files from one server to another I found a problem I’ve seen time and time again, rsync with filenames that have spaces in them.

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

So I’m forever raving about how good Linux is to the guys at work, it seems that over the last 18 months or so my rants have been getting louder/stronger.

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.