From the paper “First edition Unix: Its creation and restoration”
because the PDP-11/20 provided no memory protection against kernel corruption by the running process, it was considered a courtesy for a programmer to yell ‘‘a.out?’’—the name of the Unix assembler’s default output file—before running a new executable for the first time
I came across this 4 part guide by Michael Lucas on SNMP & MRTG, the series starts by covering the concept of SNMP & installing ucd-snmp (now net-snmp) through to configuring & customising it on the 2nd article. The 3rd & 4th articles cover installation, configuration & customisation of MRTG.
Part 1: Walk the SNMP Walk
Part 2: Talk the SNMP Talk
Part 3: Longterm monitoring with SNMP
Part 4: Customising MRTG
More themes for WMI can be found here
thanks Andre!
After a serious plugging by some of the peepz @ BSD Nexus (WIntellect!!) I decide to give the new window manager called WMI a try on my laptop running OpenBSD.
WMI is coming from the same angle as flux & black box in that its a totally stripped down window manager with heavy focus on keyboard shortcuts.
For OpenBSD the site links straight to the OpenBSD ports cvsweb page, where you can download the necessary files to build WMI, the build process went totally smoothely & a package was created in /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/ but as there is a error in one of the Make files, the package doesnt complete the install & outputs a error (will investigate this & keep you updated).
I wasnt particularly impressed with the default theme that WMI comes with (called industrial) but there are 2 aditional themes currently available on the WMI site which you can install, which I did (im currently running the DragonflyBSD theme) & judging from the contents of a theme if you dont like the themes available it wouldnt be very difficult to make your own one, a quick edit of my theme file to add some wallpaper & Its all systems go. 
Today I’ve mostly been messing with IRC bots & toys.
setup a bot (eggdrop) & irc stat generator (pisg) on my server here at home. Unfortunately the channels website is hosted elsewhere, using crontab I created a cron job to run pisg at a regular interval, then planned on using ftp in another job to upload the generated stats page. Unfortunately there no way of telling the ftp command to upload files.
To get around this I resorted to setting a cron job on a script which ran ftp & included the necessary ftp commands to upload the file piped to the ftp command.
Heres the script I used (thnx Dan!):
#!/bin/sh
ftp -i -n ftp.hostname.net <<EOF
user myusern mypasswd
cd /whereu/want2upload/
lcd /wherethe/fileis/locatedlocally/
put index.html
quit
EOF
the crontab entry looks like this
0 * * * * /pathto/sh /pathtothe/script >/dev/null 2>&1
