Sebastian Mogilowski's Blog

Just another blog about administration, linux and other stuff

Februar, 2013

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:Ich habe versucht einen Netzwerkdrucker (Samba) unter Ubuntu 12.10 zu installieren und bekam nur folgende Meldung: FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba client enabled on firewall. The workaround was […]

Racktables has problems with NDOUtils from Nagios

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 […]

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Reset MySQL Root Password

Quick tutorial to reset the root password of an MySQL server:Kleine Anleitung um das Root-Password eines MySQL-Servers zurückzusetzen: (I know there are a lot of howtos out there, i make a documentation here for myself :-))(Ich weiss es gibt bereits viele Anleitungen, ich dokumentiere das hier für mich selbst 🙂 First stop the MySQL server:Zuerst […]

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Notebook Backup to external crypted disk

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. […]

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