If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type. For some thoughts about the second type, read more
Posts Tagged ‘linux’
My little CA
I have been, recently, working with OpenSSL as a mini CA. As it is a great product, does everything with PKI what you need. Even after a while it is making sense how to use it. No problems. One issue, which held me a while was lack of clear information, instructions or interface to perform [...]
Munin and Bind9 on Gentoo
I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored. I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit. My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with my [...]
Joy of new setup
So, now when I have my connectivity sorted out, I will start my maybe never ending network setup. I need NS server ( Done ), Mail server ( pending porting ), Radius server ( pending ) and that is what I can think of now. NS was easy, as it required little work and I [...]
F-Spot
29 Jan 2007 at 23:08
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Finally got around fixing my f-spot library, had to remove old database and re-import all photos, surprise, surprise all tags were re-read from photo files and that saved my night… actually I would drop that task, if they would not re-appear in f-spot. Great stuff, maybe some day I will get around to import missing [...]
Oracle XE on Ubuntu
28 Jan 2007 at 22:58
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Is dead simple …. just remember, if you have used _any_ previous Beta or RPM version. use –purge not –remove when delete previous version… this will save you a lot of time, which I spent wondering why on earth it does not install in full/startup what ever …
SVN and Solaris 10
One word: Nightmare! How on Earth, can I install SVN/Subversion on that bloody operating system , so it will include bindings for either Perl or Ruby ?! fighting with it for last two days… finally got source to at least compile … but even if I have Ruby ( from CSW ) and Perl ( [...]
FileOpen Plugin for Acrobat on Linux
13 Nov 2006 at 22:35
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If you will have to ever use it ( I needed it for IDG.PL magazine called Net World ) the download site has some crappy hosting as it eats .gz when redirecting to archive No worries adding .gz ad the end of URL and it works.
Fancy Linux desktop aka AIGLX
12 Nov 2006 at 00:15
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When I was performing emerge -ud world recently on my vaptop, I have noticed that the new xorg server, which was to be installed has a new USE flag, the aiglx … quick ^C and edit on /etc/make.conf has switched that feature on. After updating system, I’ve added compiz to my installed software collection, and [...]
IPv6
04 Nov 2006 at 21:40
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No problem. Just finished setting up my router with IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel to Hurricane Electric … and it works! and it is amazing how easy it is to do when doing it with Cisco IOS … Linux requires more steps. But … if I wish to make it something permanently fitted in to my [...]
