Category Archives: Code

Any posts relating to software that I have developed, including contributions to other projects, but excluding any packaging work.

Holy Relic of the Server Farm

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jethro Carr

At work we’ve been using New Relic, a popular software-as-a-service monitoring platform to monitor a number of our servers and applications. Whilst I’m always hesitant of relying on external providers and prefer an open source solution where possible, the advantages … Continue reading →

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NamedManager 1.5.1

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve pushed a new release of NamedManager version 1.5.1, this release is a minor bug fix release providing: Bug fix for handling of TXT records, where extra slashes would be entered into the record due to an input validator bug. … Continue reading →

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Presenting NamedManager

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jethro Carr

A while ago I had a project to build a DNS management application for a client, which has since been refined and improved further, and finally released as “NamedManager” now that I’ve had time to re-do the documentation for a … Continue reading →

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Point & click Procmail with MailGuidance

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Procmail is a rather old, but still very useful Unix/Linux application commonly used for writing mail filter rules on Linux servers. I typically use it for user-level filtering, such as defining mailbox filters for all my emails. It’s also useful … Continue reading →

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Radius Rapid Rotate (R3)

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been spending a bit of time lately going through my private source code repositories and tidying up things for public release. A while ago I had a customer who required their FreeRadius traffic accounting logs to be collected from … Continue reading →

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Introducing FlatTraffic

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

FlatTraffic is an AGPL web interface for analyzing NetFlow records and showing statistics designed to make it clear and easy to determine which hosts of the network are consuming data. It’s still in beta stage, the application is functional and … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo Clock NZ

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Having arrived in Sydney, I’m staying with some of Lisa’s relatives who have kindly provided us with a room for a while until we get our own place sorted out. One of the things they have in their house, is … Continue reading →

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Twitter Auto Delete

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Despite me making a clean break from Twitter earlier this year, I’ve ended up back on it on a casual basis, mostly due to the number of my friends on there who only chat or are only reachable via it. … Continue reading →

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cifs, ipv6 and rhel 5

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Unfortunately with my recent project enabling IPv6 across my entire personal server environment, I’ve bumped into a number of annoying issues – nothing that isn’t fixable, but things that are generally frustrating and which just shouldn’t be an issue. Particular … Continue reading →

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Introducing Smokegios

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Having a reasonably large personal server environment of at least 10 key production VMs along with many other non-critical, but still important machines, a good monitoring system is key. I currently use a trio of popular open source applications: Nagios … Continue reading →

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