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.

yum install ghostscript yum install libtool yum install libtool-ltdl yum install lcms yum install zip yum install mysql yum install mysql-server yum install php53-gd yum install php53-mysql yum install php53-mbstring chkconfig httpd on chkconfig mysql on service httpd start (or restart) service mysql start

Amount of Memory sysctl -a | grep hw.memsize: or /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Memory Amount of Swap ls -al /private/var/vm/swapfile0 | awk ‘{print $5}’ Amount of Free Swap vm_stat | awk ‘/Pages free:/ {print substr($3,1,match($3,/\./)-1)}’

Setting up GMail as a relay in Postfix always seems to be an issue with me. Here’s a quick overview of the process: Install Postfix (if not already installed) Configure Postfix (if no main.cf exists). Use: sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix Generate CSR, in /etc/postfix/certs /usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca openssl genrsa -out itchy.key 1024 openssl req -new -key itchy.key -out itchy.csr openssl ca -out itchy.pem -infiles itchy.csr Edit main.cf relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587 #auth smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd #tls smtp_use_tls = yes...