Off you go… into the purple yonder!

I have a bunch of WRT54GL units that still run OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.07 (latest version is 7.09).
I needed to swap out a unit that is one half of a WDS pair, but preferred not to touch the other half. Cloning the wan mac address on these things is easy, but cloning the wifi mac address [...]

Getting access to the serial port in a Xen 3.2 dom0 is somewhat complicated. This is the magic incantation for your grub menu.lst file to get console at 115200 bps on the first physical serial port, as well as on the screen.

serial –unit=0 –speed=115200
terminal –timeout=5 serial console

title Xen 3
root (hd0,0)
kernel [...]

I don’t know about you, but I like to have my system logs split day by day, particularly on busy machines. I also like to have a full timestamp (including year and timezone thank you) in system log files.
The venerable syslog package can not do these things – but syslog-ng can.
On Debian/Ubuntu, the default [...]