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84104

22:07

User just called me, read a dialog box over the phone, then selected the right answer. I only said hi. They might be learning!

voretaq7

@84104 Buy them a rubber duck? :)

84104

@voretaq7 I would, but I'm poor and everyone else make more money than I do.

George Edison

@Jacob: You around?

Iain

@GeorgeEdison he hasn't been seen for a while

George Edison

> "seen 43s ago, talked 7d ago"

You have a point there.

Iain

22:15

s/seen/heard

George Edison

I guess I'll find another way to get in touch with him.

Adrian

Psst. Can anyone confirm whether WANem is just an IPTables wrapper?

ewwhite

Pay the money!

Q: distributed monitoring with process control

I am searching a tool for monitoring my web apps, which are deployed accross several machines in the same VPN. However, besides the monitoring service, I would like to control my services (start|stop|restart) from a central place, preferentially web ui. I found Monit , and its great. But, the dis...

Joel

@ewwhite 500 bucks? I probably spend that much on coffee in a month

ewwhite

it's just such a reasonable license...

unlimited...

Joel

22:27

lol I broke nginx. At least this isn't a production box

voretaq7

@84104 Buy yourself a rubber duck with a squeaker, when people call squeak it into the phone.

@Joel is nginx fragile?

@GeorgeEdison Flares.

84104

@voretaq7 Tempted to bring in my wooden train whistle. I recently found it again.

voretaq7

@84104 i have one of those somewhere

84104

22:42

@voretaq7 They're great fun if used appropriately.

jollyroger

@voretaq7 I wouldn't say so. I've never segfaulted it actually. Once I executed invoke-rc.d nginx restart instead of .. reload on a broken config which shut the server down, but I never missed since that time.

voretaq7

i guess so many people break it b/c it's new and unfamiliar?

jollyroger

@voretaq7 it has some specific concepts which are hard to get right the first time you use it before reading any documentation. So if you're just jump from Apache2 on it you'll get confused much by familiar directives which work not exactly like in Apache2. But once you know core and fastcgi module well everything is ok.

I still don't understand how to get caching on nginx right. This is like some task on physics: you should read the problem itself again and again until the problem is solved.