Anyone who has spent any time in a shell and has been cut off while working should know about screen. If not, then I recommend reading up on it (here or here). But I’m not here to tell you about screen as a general tool, I want to show you how to use it for screen sharing. I found a couple of forum posts and other scattered information, so here’s a little centralizing of information.
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Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
Sharing a Screen Session
23 Jul 2010 — ericCreating Configuration Files With Ruby Templates
30 Jun 2010 — ericI recently had a very repetitive configuration file that needed creating. There were approximately 50 config blocks of 10 lines each with only the host name changing with each block. So I decided to take a shortcut and do it in Ruby using ERB templates. This is so easy and literally save me hours worth of work.
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Nagios notify-by-campfire Plugin
6 May 2010 — ericSince one of the core communication methods for my company amongst engineers is 37Signals Campfire and Nagios is one of our main monitoring tools for all of our applications and services, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the two. So with a few simple additions to the Nagios configuration and a Ruby Campfire script, you can get this up and running.
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Creating Dummy Packages On Debian
4 May 2010 — ericOne of my favorite things about Debian is its awesome package management system. Apt is one of the reasons I have used Debian for servers for so many years and eased my initial transition to Ubuntu (which as most people know was initially a Debian fork). Apt is a great tool as long as you aren’t building packages from source (and not making debs out of them). I have packaged a whole bunch of debs, but sometimes it just isn’t necessary. So if you haven’t used equivs, then you need to check it out.
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