At first we need to install Icinga [https://www.icinga.org/] and lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]: # aptitude install icinga lighttpd We need to enable the lighttpd cgi and authentication module: # lighttpd-enable-mod cgi && ighttpd-enable-mod auth Let's create a config for Icinga (in a subdir of the…
As some of you might have noticed, the Site PHP.net [http://php.net] was infected [http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/10/phpnet-site-infected-with-malware.html] yesterday with Malware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware]. If you are running a shared hosting environment, you are also be faced with similar Malware problems.…
Today the Nagios Plugins Development Team [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/team.html] released [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/doc/release-notes/1-5.html] the long awaited version 1.5 of the Nagios Plugins. It contains several bug-fixes as well as new features. The project moved to a new home at nagios-plugins.org…
Indeed, there is much crappy PHP [http://php.net] application code out there in the wild. Anyways ... when you have to care about webservers you may have systems which are relying on PHP. Upgrading this systems to the next major PHP version may break projects hosted on those systems, cause…
Unfortunately ownCloud [http://owncloud.org] is not available in Debian wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy]. Even if it was promised [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-owncloud-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20130304/000434.html] to provide a package via backports [http://backports.debian.org/], this seems [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/…
Some of you might have noticed there is a new nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] version in the row [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31356051]. To support upstream in evaluating bugs and bringing the code to a wider audience, I uploaded [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/…
Roundcube [http://www.roundcube.net/] is one of the well known [https://www.google.com/search?q=webmail+opensource] OpenSource solutions for accessing Mails via webinterface. Unfortunately the package [http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/roundcube.html] in wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy] is ~2 years old. In…
Since 2 weeks I'm faced with some problems at a Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen] hosting environment based on Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. The issue is, that one specific domU is regularly failing network. The investigations showed, that…