[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Contact
slackware at metaed dot com
Professional summary
Computer enthusiast since 1976, computer professional since 1981. Slackware-filtered detail:
- Unix and others of that ilk
- coding (Shell, C, JS/ECMA, Perl, PHP)
- Literate Programming (noweb)
- Apache web service (httpd)
- host management using DNS/DHCP (dnsmasq), NTP, SNMP, syslog, Zabbix
- e-mail service (postfix/dovecot or good ole' sendmail)
- NFT firewalling
- relational DB including MySQL/MariaDB
- X Window System including VNC
Ask me about my PDP-11.
Pages changed recently by MetaEd
| Page | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ntp | 2022/09/20 19:46 (UTC) | [Sources] tag to Slackware 15.0 and additional author |
| vnc | 2023/03/13 18:26 (UTC) | contribute new section starting Xvnc on-demand |
| ntp | 2022/06/30 22:42 (UTC) | let editors know who to blame for the updated HOWTO |
| vnc | 2023/03/13 18:29 (UTC) | remove body of new section now promoted to article |
| arfon | 2023/03/13 18:32 (UTC) | [proposed addition to VNC how-to] announce article promotion |
| metaed | 2023/03/03 21:21 (UTC) | created |
| metaed | 2023/03/07 15:40 (UTC) | [Professional summary] add literate programming |
Contributions to sysklogd
| Commit | Date |
|---|---|
| Prevent logfile corruption by control codes | 2022-06-16 |
| Prevent overread when scanning the message buffer | 2022-06-16 |
| Don't skip the <PRI> field in the call to wallmsg() | 2022-05-14 |
