A small Python class I wrote to give AppDaemon apps more Pythonic logging.

I just came across a really handy post on David Busby‘s blog: Enable logging in the SFTP subsystem - Oneiroi. From OpenSSH 4.4 on, you can pass arguments to Subsystem calls, and the sftp subsystem supports logging to an aribtrary syslog facility and priority. Simply adding a line like …

There are a few unfortunate places where I have an Apache httpd server serving multiple vhosts, some behind a F5 BigIp load balancer and some with direct traffic. For sites behind the LB, the remote IP/host will always show up as the LB’s IP/host, not that of …

I think I’m going to choose a new theme for my blog. The current theme is iNove (albeit an older version with some custom modifications), and I feel like it looks a bit messy and has gotten a bit cluttered, so it’s time to find something new. I …

I use Google Analytics for visitor stats on this blog. Not because I’m trying to direct-market to my readers or become Big Brother, but for a number of simple reasons:

• It’s simple - no software for me to update, and nothing that needs to run on my server and …

I recently discovered the petit program for log analysis. It’s a simple tool to pull out useful information from syslog logs in a variety of ways. I’ve only used it a few times so far, mainly on logs from problems I’ve already solved but didn’t know …

I just installed php-suhosin 0.9.29 from EPEL on a CentOS 5.6 box. I’m running a whole bunch of name-based vhosts in Apache, and have a bunch of web apps, so I opted to run suhosin in simulation mode (don’t actually block anything, but log …

So today I started to implement a number of complex regex-based rules and templates to get rsyslog to parse ISC DHCPd logs in realtime. Unfortunately one of my templates must have been wrong, because I started seeing some errors about a field that cannot be blank in /var/log/messages …

Update July 2011 - We’ve been using rsyslog for our centralized syslog infrastructure at work (site being redesigned at the moment) for about a year now. As a result, our colleagues at Rutgers University Open System Solutions have been nice enough to include rsyslog in their koji build system. Updated …