This Blog today runs for 5 years.
It now has about 125 entries and 380 comments. It get’s about 200 visits per day mostly on weekdays
The busiest day had 1100 visits.
Thank’s a lot to all my followers
Happy Birthday!
This Blog today runs for 5 years.
It now has about 125 entries and 380 comments. It get’s about 200 visits per day mostly on weekdays
The busiest day had 1100 visits.
Thank’s a lot to all my followers
Ubuntu 12.10 Network printer problem
I tried to add a network (samba) printer on Ubuntu 12.10 with gnome and i get only this message:
FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba client enabled on firewall.
The workaround was to run
system-config-printer
in terminal and configurate the printer.
Racktables has problems with NDOUtils...
Small script reads nagios problems from ndo database and set has_problems flag in racktables:
Works with plain Nagios and NDOUtils Setup or an Centreon installation. But you have to use the same name of a server in both system !
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use DBI;
# NDO Database Settings
my $ndoHost = 'localhost';
my $ndoUser = 'r [...]
Reset MySQL Root Password
Quick tutorial to reset the root password of an MySQL server:
(I know there are a lot of howtos out there, i make a documentation here for myself )
First stop the MySQL server:
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
Now start the server in “safe mode” without password and network:
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking
You can [...]
Notebook Backup to external crypted d...
Here is the documentation, how i making backups of my notebook. I use a external USB harddisk, which is connected to my docking station. On system logon, i check if the external disk is present and mount it. A cronjob starts a backup script, which creates backups with rsync if the backup partition is mounted. Please note, that you have to re [...]
List of Ubuntu Based Linux Distributi...
A great list of Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions and Live Cd’s
http://www.debianadmin.com/list-of-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions-and-live-cds-2.html
Ubuntu 12.10 – Move Window Butt...
In Ubuntu 12.10 the gconf-editor won’t work any more.
So here is a quick way to change it. Just execute in your Terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ':minimize,maximize,close'
Racktables Extension v0.3
New version of my Racktables Extension
More Details here: http://www.mogilowski.net/projects/racktables
Custom Report:
Nagios Plugin for Racktables
My first “real” plugin for Racktables:
Download & Howto here: Racktables
Works with Racktables 0.19.xx and 0.20.0
System Administrator Appreciation Day...
To all other system adminstrators “HAPPY SYSADMIN DAY !”
SELECT * FROM JOBS WHERE DESCRIPTION=’AWESOME’;
http://www.sysadminday.com
