I better post this before I forget about it. One of the issues I had today was getting corp3/x86_64 installed in a chroot with Mandriva 2009.0 as the host. Of course, the db4 version had changed, so I had to take advantage of some conversion tools. urpmi is …
more ...This week's TechMail is VMware Server 2.0 offers handy new upgrades which takes a look at the new(ish) VMware Server 2.0. When I wrote it, it was pretty much the first time I've looked at VMware Server for a while... it made a decent alternative to VMware …
more ...Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here:
http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/
I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote:
more ...After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we …
This week's TechMail is Remotely monitor servers with the Nagios check_by_ssh plugin which discusses using the check_by_ssh plugin in Nagios to get local plugin results from remote systems, via ssh. I use this to monitor my VPS and other remote systems so I can see things like load average, disk …
more ...Adam forwarded me a link to his latest blog post about Linux security. It's quite amusing to read (I suspect someone must have told him how uber secure Linux is). Anyways, it's completely true so for all the pundits who preach on how much more secure Linux is than Windows …
more ...This week's TechMail is Learning more about Nagios for server monitoring which reviews the book Learning NAGIOS 3.0 published by Packt Publishing. This is a pretty decent book for anyone interested in learning more about Nagios. It taught me, who's been using Nagios for some time, a few new …
more ...This past week's TechMail is Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL which talks about a really cool little application-level firewall that sits between your database-accessing code and MySQL. Really neat concept and although I've played with it a bit, I need to find some time to really dig into it as I …
more ...This week's TechMail is Save time managing multiple systems with Parallel SSH, which discusses using pssh (or Parallel SSH) to do similar operations on multiple systems at the exact same time. Very useful little program indeed.
more ...Some statistics, before I go on holidays until the end of the year.
Looking at bugfix updates, we've seen a steady increase since I've kept track (going back to 1999, although I think in 1999 it was only a half-year of doing updates).
This week's TechMail is Monitor your server with Monitorix which discusses the Monitorix web package that provides a nice almost-real-time monitoring interface for your system that is accessible via the web.
On a side note, why is it that almost everytime I write these tips, some boob always asks "is …
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