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New server IP address

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Due to the migration to Frontier from ATT, the server’s static IP address has changed from 108.89.65.174.  It’s new IP address is:  32.220.54.46.

Also, the web pages at cap.vapor.com have been migrated to cap.crabradio.net, so that they fall fully under the crabradio.net domain, owned by me.

The subdomain webpage still has a cap.vapor.com graphic on it, but I’m hoping my friend The Moonshiner can come up with a similar graphic to just drop in.  😉

The only problems that you will encounter is if you attempt to load cap.vapor.com, as that dns is dead and unlikely to be updated.

I’m still waiting for the rest of the arcnet irc admins to update the US1 server IP address, and I shall reconnect us1.arcnet-irc.org to the rest of the servers.

Thanks for your patience.

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Server sendmail and icecast info

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Well, I just noticed that the podcast and regular blog weren’t sending out email notifications any longer.  Pretty easy to track down.  For some reason, sendmail was not running.  Even easier to fix.  I simply did (as root):

# systemctl start sendmail

Tested the podcast’s php mail function, and all is well.

Something else that I’ve been chewing on for awhile and finally whipped a couple weeks ago.  I wanted my icecast server and IceS streaming source to behave like centovacast, with a ‘live’ mountpoint that ‘takes control’ of the stream…..  All I had to do is add these lines to /etc/icecast.xml:

<mount>
<mount-name>/stream</mount-name>
<fallback-mount>/live</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<hidden>1</hidden>
<public>0</public>
</mount>

<mount>
<mount-name>/live</mount-name>
<fallback-mount>/autostream</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<hidden>1</hidden>
<public>0</public>
</mount>

<mount>
<mount-name>/autostream</mount-name>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<hidden>1</hidden>
<public>0</public>
</mount>

Then, I just had to set IceS to send to the autostream mountpoint, instead of stream.  So, now, in absence of live, when you connect to the normal stream mountpoint, you fallback to live, then fallback to autostream.  The fallback-override directive allows a live source to ‘pull back’ listeners connected to the autostream.  😉

 

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Security cameras now running under Fedora Linux (64 bit)

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Well, I managed over the past few days to get the security cameras up and running on Fedora 21 Linux 64 bit using Zoneminder.  The cameras were running under WebCamXP under Windows 7 64 bit, but I grew tired of Bill Gates deciding to reboot the server, even though I instructed it not to perform updates.  Microsoft would occasionally decide that it was in my best interest to apply an update automatically, and do a reboot, rather than allowing me to do that.

Click here for some screenshots from the zoneminder site of it in action.  I’m already a fan of it since it’s running under Linux and Zoneminder Montageutilizing mysql.  For right now, it’s running ‘in parallel’ to the Win 7 server, to make sure that there aren’t any issues.  In a week or two, I shall finalize the migration.  Another point that would have probably been an issue with running two security servers ‘in parallel’ would have been overloading my wireless network, so I converted everything to ‘wired’ with the two servers in a temporary location to make sure everything is working properly.  I left the wireless access configured for it to use it as a ‘fallback’ in case the wired ethernet fails.  (The picture above is not my actual cameras, btw.)

Another upside to this is that the zoneminder console is far less cpu hungry than its windows counterpart.  It’s running at around 75% to Zoneminder Console85% cpu free.  For you hardware geeks out there, it’s running Fedora 21 (64 bit) on a compaq (or HP, if you would rather) machine with an Intel i5 quad core 3.10 Ghz cpu with 8 GB of ram.  (I checked, and got similar numbers on Fedora 21 32 bit with 4GB of ram.) (The picture above is not my actual console, or web address.)  (Yes, I have my console password protected.)  If anybody is inclined, and needs help to set things up, just ask, and I’ll be happy to post a tutorial here.  (Since it’s linux-based, its hardware requirements aren’t that high.)

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Versatile Bandwidth Monitor

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I managed to find a great, free bandwidth monitor tool that is not crippled or limited except for one minor thing that mostly won’t cause grief.  If you need that, then activate it.  😉  It’s called Netbalancer, by seriousbit.  Here is the tray NetBalancerTrayicon.  It actually turns transparent when you move your mouse over it.  It can also be hidden down to the taskbar, where if you double click it, it will lauch the main program task window.  Next is the larger popup that you get when you mouseover the NetBalancerLargerPopupdouble red and green arrows in the task bar, you get what’s on the right.  A bit more information than the smaller one, and as soon as you move your mouse away, it goes back into hiding.  Now, if you double click the little tray icon, you will get the main program window with all the details and controls that you could imagine.NetBalancerMain If you notice if you expand the graphic, it says that the trial period has expired.  It still works, and even asks if you want to upgrade to the latest version.  Been using this for a month or two now, and it’s really slick.  Click here to download the program.  And, click here to go to the main webpage for detailed info.  Enjoy.  I used Bandwidth Monitor Pro for many years, but it didn’t do  half of what this program does.  It would not allow you to throttle bandwidth, or the real deal breaker, it wouldn’t allow you to see WHICH application was using all of your bandwidth.  😉

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