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MoD 'to pay for Trident renewal'

The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay the 20bn cost of renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent, putting further pressure on the defence budget. more.

Strikes and ash extend BA losses

BA reveals a steep quarterly loss after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud. more.

Welfare reform options outlined

Ministers are to set out options for reforming the benefits system and moving people from welfare into work. more.

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Microsites

Perth — 1995: Small site on Perth, Western Australia
Wedding — 2005: Our wedding web site.
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Work and career

Vibrant Media: Global Network Operations Manager, London
Fotango / Canon: Manager/Lead Sys Admin, London
Hartley Poynton/JDV: Sys Admin, Perth
UWA: Sys Admin, Perth

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Ignoring useless Syslog messages

Three steps to knowing what's going on in Syslog in one easy daily email:

Install syslog summary (apt-get install syslog-summary).
Set up your ignore file (see suggestions below)
Update your /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng or similar rotation script to call syslog summary and email you the results

JEB's list of messages to ignore

The key item here is what you want ot ignore

Most kernel boot-time init messages (except ONE)
Most daemon startup notices (except ONE)
Most CRON notice messages
Most status messages

Here's a reasonable list to get started: syslog.ignore

Other syslog-summary tips

Always test any changes manually before leaving for the day!
Kernel messages now have a timestamp on them (see above example.
Some of the kernel messages we only want to ignore during boot time: the pattern match for up to 2 digits of uptime in the above example will ignore link change notices for the first 99 seconds (kernel: (\[\s+\d{1,2}\.\d+\] )?)