In case you're annoyed by the fact that backspace doesn't work by default in vim on SLES, add this to /etc/vimrc or ~/.vimrc:


set backspace=indent,eol,start


Recently some of the larger ISPs in Belgium decided to finally open their eyes and increase their ridiculously low traffic limits. They even announced to entirely drop these limits for the more expensive ones. About damn time they did that.

Unfortunately, if you read the small letters, they still mention "$ISP maintains the right to lower the bandwidth for customers who have a higher traffic usage than the average for that particular product". Sounds pretty vague to me. I'd rather have a connection with a 250GB traffic limit, then signing up for something like this, which is totally unclear... Typical ... They really couldn't come up with anything better, after the big publicity stunts they organized? Belgacom, Telenet, you both fail once again.

To be able to keep some log history of my OpenWRT based router, I want to send it's output to a remote syslog server.

Fortunately I have another machine that is running 24/7, so I don't have to send it over the WAN link to one of my servers in the datacenter. My HTPC is running Gentoo Linux, and I configured syslog-ng as syslog daemon.

Now, by default, syslog-ng does not listen on the "Well Known" syslog port, so we have to configure it to do so. Start with adding a new source to syslog-ng.conf:

source syslog_udp {
udp(port(514));
};


We also need to configure a destination, a file in this case, where syslog-ng will write logging information received on the syslog port:

destination df_wrt0 {
file("/var/log/remote/wrt0.log");
};