Category: IT

I was forced to update my blog and delete a few old posts as I am preparing to post some work related (IT) material in twitter pointing here.Most deleted posts concern old work interests and World of Warcraft links.The material to be posted will be about Nagios, Ansible, Python, and Automation in general.

These are the sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4620672/copy-and-paste-content-from-one-file-to-another-file-in-vi  http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Cut/copy_and_paste_using_visual_selection http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/219/copy-and-paste-text-with-vi-or-vim/ Since you already know how to cut/yank text, here are a few ideas for pasting it back into another file: Edit the first file, yanking the text you want. Then open your second file from within vi (:e /path/to/other/file) and paste it Open both files together in a…

If you want to match something at the end of the line you need to use the $ character at the end of the string pattern. The following are taken from : http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/8255-vim-tips-the-basics-of-search-and-replace  Let’s start by looking at searches and doing search and replace operations within Vim. You can do a search in normal mode…

I am trying to find a way to send sms messages whenever an alert is generated in a nagios monitoring system. The links below contain material that can lead to a solution. Implementation links: http://www.lecentre.net/blog/archives/985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIB8OAVBtY http://www.sms-integration.com/p_110-nagios-sms.html http://matt.bottrell.com.au/archives/205-Nagios-2-way-alerting-via-SMS-Part-2.html SMS Gateways links for Greece: http://www.clickatell.com/products/sms_gateway.php?cid=31683 http://www.smsn.gr/index.php?mm=home http://www.smsgateway.gr/ The first one seems promising as it can provide…