FreeBSD, gettext, libintl and bash

Monday, 10. 25. 2010  –  Category: sw

Login surprise! Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jul 12 20:22:27 UTC 2010 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by "bash" $ What’s happened here is that gettext (which provides libintl.so) has been upgraded without its […]

cron

Wednesday, 02. 24. 2010  –  Category: sw

Obviously cron jobs are abundantly useful for so many things, all the way from basic housekeeping up to big application functionality. They’re also the source of plenty of flail. What do I mean? They are neither code nor data, so often get overlooked, or shonkily installed, by application deployment tools They run with a minimal […]

SOAP in unexpected “actually, quite easy” incident.

Wednesday, 09. 30. 2009  –  Category: sw, web

In web service access shuffle, today’s mission is introducing large N number of new backend pools, traffic rules and virtual servers to Zeus ZXTM balancers. No time for monkeying around in the web UI, better check out their well documented API. It uses SOAP, which I’ve never got busy with before – slightly apprehensive. The […]