Once Nagios was setup on the little Minecraft server, it needed to be configured to send email. These days I prefer to relay through one of my Google Apps accounts, so I set forth to setup GMail as a relay using Postfix, which was already installed, but not really doing anything. Using Postfix always seems to be an issue with me, since I have more experience with Sendmail. However, having done this recently on a few Macs, I figured what the heck. Here’s a quick overview of the process: Install Postfix (if not already installed). Configure Postfix (if no main.cf exists). Use: sudo...

So we have a little server, running Ubuntu 11.10, setup for my son’s Minecraft server. I decided to throw Nagios on there to monitor my various remotely hosted services. In the process I discovered that the Nagios3 package with Ubuntu sort of sucks. So much of it really doesn’t work, without screwing around. Well at least it didn’t work the way I was used to nor the way I wanted it to. I finally bagged it and went with building the current release from SourceForge. Unfortunately, the current release of the pluggins failed to compile.  so I went with the latest drop. It compiled and...

Well ya found it, good for you. What, you ask? Well these are the random thoughts and ramblings of a hands-on system administrator, who is also a web developer, and tech junkie that likes to write scripts and play with things.