Linux
Kubuntu Server, Nagios and Mysql
Sunday, June 10th, 2007In an effort to get nagios to monitor an Mysql database on a remote server I decided to try and get the command working. First off to get the Nagios plugins to work for mysql you have to install the mysql client libraries. In order to get the client libraries to install correctly […]
Kubuntu server and Vmware
Sunday, May 27th, 2007I recently install Kubuntu server on my desktop so that I could run Nagios to monitor my colo machines … more about that later. Of course as ultimately happens every time I make a change I ran into issues. This time with VMWare. The problem was that vmware would not compile. […]
Feisty Fawn and VPNC
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007It is things like this that really make me wonder if linux can ever make it as a desktop replacement. The current version of Ubuntu was released with a known bug in vpnc 0.4.0. It appears that when using vpnc to connect to a Cisco easy vpn solution the dead peer detection drops […]
Backtrack CD and Nessus 3
Monday, June 26th, 2006I am messing with the Backtrack CD again and decided that I wanted to run nessus from it. Doing some research I saw a few links where apparently Tenable declined the guys from remote-exploits request to ship Nessus 3 with the CD….which seems reasonable and is certainly within their rights. The problem is that there […]
Backtrack CD and Java
Monday, June 26th, 2006I recently downloaded the 1.0 release of the Backtrack CD and had a reason to want the java plugin enabled in Mozilla. After a bit of searching on the CD I realized that the java jre was already there but the link for the plugin wasn’t enabled. Here is how you fix it:
cd /root/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s […]