Category Archives: Ubuntu
Zabbix 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
After working with other Open Source monitoring systems over the years, I decided to give Zabbix a try. Net-Saint then Nagios was always good, but getting it going initially and then adding the trending graphing was always a pain. Big Brother was another good one, but now that Quest Software owns it, the BTF version [...]
Galleon for Tivo on Ubuntu Hardy
I had a lot of issues with getting a recent install of Galleon operational on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I was running Galleon off and on for years on OS X, but seemed like it was time to get it going on Ubuntu.
Not Easy.
It seems they really gear Galleon on the linux-side to be most workable [...]
Denyhosts is your friend to stop ssh login attempts
If you have a few linux servers that for whatever reason you have to leave open to ssh into on the standard port 22, denyhosts is a great way to get rid of the annoying daily logwatch email logs showing some losers somewhere have been spending all day doing a denial of service trying to [...]
Moving Ubuntu Linux from PATA drive to SATA drive
I had mergy.org running on a very old laptop on a small ide 2.5″ drive. It was slow, but it was working. It got very tedious to work on though when anything went wrong and the webserver was really starting to get slow so I finally bit decided to move to newer hardware. But, the [...]
Nice GUI LDAP Browser Application –> LUMA
I have recently been doing a lot with LDAP and really needed a nice, flexible LDAP browser tool to run on Ubuntu Hardy.
Luma is great. Very configurable and easy to work with. Has a plug-in architecture and just really slick from what else is out there now.
Check it out @
http://luma.sourceforge.net