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I have a binary file with data stored as two-byte big-endian 16-bit words. We need to extract the values in the file and print them in decimal ASCII format, so to obtain numbers in the 0-655535 range. let’s create the sample file: $ echo -en "\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08" > file.bin and show its content in binary form: $ hexdump -C file.bin 00000000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 |........| 00000008 to get the desired output we can use the powerful, but little documented format string option of hexdump:...

I want to keep under control a system where each user has an amount of filesystem quota reserved; in particular I would like to get notified if and when a user exceeds some treshold. Since I already have Monit in place in the server, I took the chance to write a small Go utility in order to retrieve the quota percentage. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 // quotachecker....

Obiettivo vogliamo mantenere la stessa directory sincronizzata su due server linux. Questo significa che ogni aggiunta/rimozione/modifica di file in questa directory verrà automaticamente riportato sull’altro (salvo conflitti). Diamo per assunto che i due server siano raggiungibili via rete, ma per qualsiasi motivo non sia possibile collegare dello spazio disco condiviso. Implementazione Per raggiungere lo scopo, utilizzeremo il tool: csync2 su entrambi i server (che chiameremo nodo1 e nodo2), installiamo i pacchetti necessari:...

the Apache module mod_status is very useful for inspecting your running webserver, but it gives you only realtime informations about workers, connections, and so on. I wanted a way to keep this data and then be able to do comparison, charts and more useful reports. The first step was configuring mod_status in order to be only accessible from localhost: andrea@myserver:~$ cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/status.conf <IfModule mod_status.c> # # Allow server status reports generated by mod_status, # with the URL of http://servername/server-status # Uncomment and change the "192....