linux – akamaras

Nagios – check_rbl – No output returned from plugin

akamaras — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:59:04 +0000

Recently I faced problems setting up check_rbl v1.3.0 plugin at my nagios 3.4.1. From the gui the state of the check would turn to UNKNOWN and the Status Information would return “No output returned from plugin” Running the plugin from …

Linux script to check if your hard disk is nearly full

akamaras — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:40:16 +0000

Here is a simple script that will check if your specified partition is almost full and will notify you if it is. In order to have an email send, you must have mailx installed, for installation check my post here. …

Linux server info script

akamaras — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:04:59 +0000

Here is a script that will quickly provide you information about your linux server such as cpu model, frequency, number of cores, amount of ram & swap, system uptime and test server download & I/O speed cpu, ram and system …

linux script to check if a service is running and start it, if it’s stopped

akamaras — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:11:18 +0000

Here is a simple script that will check if your specified service is running and will start it if it’s stopped. You will have to replace “replace_me_with_a_valid_service” with the name of the service you want to check #!/bin/bash service=replace_me_with_a_valid_service if …

debian 5 lenny openvz template with wrong /etc/apt/sources.list

akamaras — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:05:20 +0000

I was getting 404 Not found errors using my new openvz with debian lenny elephant:~# apt-get update Hit http://ftp.debian.org lenny Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.debian.org lenny/volatile Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.debian.org lenny Release Ign http://ftp.debian.org lenny/volatile Release Ign http://ftp.debian.org lenny/updates …

howto setup lnmp on centOS

akamaras — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:34:42 +0000

lnmp is an alternative setup to lamp. The difference between lamp & lnmp is the web server, lamp uses apache whereas lnmp uses nginx. lnmp stands for Linux Nginx Mysql Php for this tutorial I used LNMP installer script/package written …

Network error: could not connect to server: ip:5925

akamaras — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:55:52 +0000

I was getting the above error message whenever I was trying to get console access to my kvm vps from vnc either from the java client from solusvm or vnc client from my pc. when you turn on or off …

stress test your web server with httperf

akamaras — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:35:11 +0000

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. NOTE : for accurate results, it’s best to run httperf from a remote machine and not …

CentOS 5.6

akamaras — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:09:45 +0000

CentOS 5.6 released today. Some of it’s features : ext4 is now a fully supported file system Many packages updated to newer versions New packages that were not present in 5.5 New repositories php53 is available as a php replacement …

installing suphp on virtualmin

akamaras — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:49:32 +0000

One thing I don’t like about virtualmin is the absence of suphp. After a few modifications, I managed to integrade it and make it the default php handler for new virtual hosts. This howto is based on centOS 5.5 32bit …