I use Nagios to watch over all of my server/systems, this is an excerpt from the fontpage: Nagios monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert technical staff of the problem, allowing them to begin remediation processes before […]
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Prelink is a PITA. I removed it, read how and why I did this. Aide and Prelink I am using AIDE, prelink and AIDE do not like each other. I did some research on the Internet to find out whether prelink helps saving time starting up programs. There are many articles on the net including
There are things you should not do as a system administrator, one of which is not to copy, but we all do it as it saves time – this blog entry has the story when it went wrong, no badly but I lost many, many hours to debug and correct the (small) error. The Story
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I wanted to have a way to turn off the aircon in a server/printer room remotely using a Web Application and/or an executable via ssh and bash. I had to find a way to interact with the air conditioner via some device connected to a server (CentOS) so I could turn off/on the air conditioner
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The image I use for “bash” articles contains a little bit of shell code that if used on the command line will hang your system, unrecoverably. Explanation A good place to start to understand the little piece of bash script in the image above is to RTFM (read the fine manual), in this case the
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