RPM Spec

I’ve been working through updating a fair number of Perl Modules on an older RedHat based distribution. As I’m trying to do various things, I’ve run into a number of weird issues. Enough so, I though, I should write down the things I’ve found in a blog so I can easily find it later. Then, I looked around, and found hundreds of blogs by folks who wrote down the bare basics of what it takes to write an RPM spec file, or only the things that THAT PERSON needed for THAT PROJECT....

6 Jun 2022 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Terminal Colors with Highlight.js

This is another post where I’m working on Hugo capabilities. This time, though, I’m mostly dealing with expanding highlight.js, which is the highlighting tool used by the PaperMod theme. Terminal in color This shows my terminal prompt in approximately the colors that I see. gvollink@javavm [GIT: (✅) master]:0 🏠/src/web/hugo-blog$ The above, in source, has embedded ANSI escape codes. To do this I created a language called terminal for highlight.js and an accompanying PlugIn....

25 May 2022 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Trying Hugo

This is a post where I’m literally doing nothing but testing hugo to see if it will work for what I need. Turns out, it works pretty well. Here are some features I’m likely to use. Sub With Code Trying a sub-topic my $test = MyStuff->new(); if ( ! $test ) { printf {*STDERR} "Error.\n"; } Final Thoughts It took me over a week to figure out how to extract what I needed from my old Google blogger account, and now that I’ve done that, I’m … happy enough … with the results....

16 May 2022 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Geek] Attack Vectors and Twitter

I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times.  Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....

17 Sep 2011 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink