So you have your Nagios server installed...now what. Monitoring devices on your network is typically a three step process. Once you get used to following these steps you will begin setting many new devices to monitor with this great tool Nagios.
Read more »How to Monitor a Device with Nagios
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Systemd presented as SysV-Init and Upstart alternative
Systemd is intended to get around the design weaknesses of other Init systems for Linux and is partly inspired by Mac OS X's launchd
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Set up virt-install to work with Xen 4.0 guests on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server
First of all i thanks Lozz for his negative score, which has stirred up my mind.Set up Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.12 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server ([2]) . Install packages
# apt-get install virtinst python-virtinst virt-viewer
KDevelop 4.0 Stable Released into the Wild
The KDevelop Hackers are proud and happy to announce that KDevelop 4.0 is finally available as a stable release. Released together is the first version of KDevelop PHP plugins, which make KDevelop a very interesting option for PHP developers.
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Some Linux Hardware Statistics From Phoronix Global
On Phoronix Global we have more than 25,000 benchmark result submissions from independent users around the world since launching the public version of the Phoronix Test Suite back in early 2008.
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Howto install Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.
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Linux File Security Training at the ACLU
If user and group management has you in a quandary, it's time to take the advanced filesystem security class at the ACLU.
Read more »Rethinking PID 1
This blog story is long, so even though I can only recommend reading the long story, here's the one sentence summary: we are experimenting with a new init system and it is fun.
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diffutils-3.0 released
"This is to announce diffutils-3.0, a stable release, with only three
items in NEWS and 30 change-sets (most build/test/maintenance-related). There have been hundreds of improvements in gnulib, but that should have little effect on diffutils, unless your system is old or unusual..."
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The Beginnings of TECO by Dan Murphy (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing - PDF)
[PDF] Dan Murphy: «...TECO continued to be heavily used and enhanced by the hackers in Minsky’s AI lab, eventually including Richard Stallman.In the early to mid-1970s, Stallman would make some key enhancements to TECO that allowed it to become a fully interactive, WYSIWYG-style onscreen editor [...] This became the origina
Read more »Introducing the Fedora Kiosk Spin
Imagine a machine sitting at a library, that had no operating system on it, except a livedvd. The livedvd has a disabled root account, and the only user account is xguest. The xguest account can only talk to web ports and when you logout all files and processes get destroyed.
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Getting virt-install to work with Xen 4.0 guests on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server
Schema worked so nicely on Ubuntu Karmic Koala doesn’t help any longer. Virt-install crashes right away attempting to launch VNC console. Set up Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.12 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server. Install just two packages virtinst and python-virtinst.
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Grml 2010.04 Live Linux adds VNC mode and detects host RAID devices
The Grml project has released version 2010.04 of its Debian-based Live Linux distribution for administrators. Key new features are a VNC mode and automatic configuration of host RAID devices
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Sun Java moved to the Partner repository in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the sun-java6 packages have been dropped from the Multiverse section of the Ubuntu archive. It is recommended that you use openjdk-6 instead.
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The Loser In Our Windows vs. Linux Tests: Intel Graphics
We are still working on the first part of our Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS benchmarks that are set to be published early next week, but so far there is one easy conclusion to draw from the completed tests:
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