Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https://www.…
Yesterday I asked [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2013/11/24/running-icinga-with-lighttpd-on-a-raspberry/] myself, how to setup a crossbuild environment on a Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]/amd64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64] to build binary packages compatible [http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#Can_…
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…
After running a QNAP TS-459 Pro+ for the last 3 or 4 years at home, my monitoring was alerting me about memory warnings cause I upgraded my SqueezeBox Server [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server] to the latest nightly version. So I looked into how to upgrade 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/…