March 2008
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Trigger a Command On a Log Event
I was trying to track down the cause of some iptables log messages. I wanted a packet dump while the problem was occurring but the symptom appears sporadically with 15 minute or so gaps. There’s a lot of traffic flowing through the system in question so if I leave tcpdump running I’ll too much traffic to sort through. What I needed was a means of starting tcpdump when the log messages appear....
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VA Car Stacking
Parking at the San Diego VA Hospital is a nightmare for outpatients and visitors. To help with this they instituted free valet parking so they can stack cars three or four deep. When I went to the VA Hospital a few weeks ago to get treated for the same illness that was sweeping across the country I found something disconcerting.
To combat the parking issues they’ve started using the entire...