Geauga Lakes closes for good.
Geauga Lake, located in Aurora Ohio has been closed for good.
Find the official announcement from Cedar Fair, the owning company, here .
This is indeed very sad for me because my family has had a tradition of going to the park every summer for a little get a way time. It was inexpensive and not overly crowded. However, the not overly crowded part may have been the very thing that help lead to it’s demise.
Cedar Fair (the owner / operators of the park), claim that attendance has always been low and has continued to decline. I have to admit, that every time I have been to the park I always said that the park was definitely not operating at it’s full capacity. Apparently, Cedar Fair will begin dismantling the rides immediately and either sending them to their other parks or selling them. I would imagine that the wooden roller coasters cannot be moved. If I am correct, then these will sit there and rot away as old skeletons.
Script to display OpenVPN status
Well, I won’t claim it’s pretty or the most efficiently written script ever made….
However, I had a problem. OpenVPN, when it is run in daemon mode, do not give you any easy was to check who is currently logged into the VPN or what the internal routes are, etc. I learned from reading the man page, that you can cause the daemon to output status if you send a SIGUSR2 to the process. Now, if OpenVPN is not running as a daemon, it will send the status to stdout; if it IS running as a daemon, it is sent to syslog.
So, you can tail your /var/log/messages and read the stats. But that’s kinda clunky and certainly not easy for people with weak shell skills. Some people who help admin my OpenVPN server are not shell savvy, so I wanted to make a utility you could use to easy display the current stats.
