Author Archives: Julien Palard

emacs: standard input is not a tty

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Julien Palard

Did you ever tried something like : $ find -name ‘*.c’ | xargs emacs or $ grep -rl snmp . | xargs emacs and got the error “emacs: standard input is not a tty” ? That’s normal, as the stdin … Continue reading →

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Automating GNU screen startup

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Julien Palard

At work I use GNU screen with one window per server (ssh connection), and when I loose my screen, it takes minutes to rebuild the naming and the ssh connections … So I searched and found a PHP version on … Continue reading →

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ashttp: vt100 screen scraping exported over HTTP

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Julien Palard

Originally wrote for logtop I just wrote a vt100 screen scraper that listen to a port and serve the screen over HTTP. Basically, you want a `top` (or logtop ;-) ) to be displayed in your website back office ? … Continue reading →

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squid: (101) Network is unreachable when DNS returns IPv6

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Julien Palard

If you have a Squid proxy configured on a machine that have no IPv6 access, and try to reach an IPv6 powered site, you squid will try to reach the site using IPv6 (I use squid 3.1.6 from Debian Squeeze) … Continue reading →

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emacs: Highlighting errors for c, python, and other languages

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Julien Palard

Hi ! Today we’ll see how to highlight syntax errors in emacs, with exemples for C and Python. First you should learn about flymake-mode here : http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlyMake In a nutshell Flymake is a minor mode to perform on the fly … Continue reading →

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