I previously posted in my useful comments entry how to validate rpm files on an rpm based Linux server using `rpm -Va` and then checking the output. So how do you do this on Solaris 10? It’s actually quite simple. Use the pgkchk command. If you want to check a [...]
Here’s a step by step installation of the Nagios plugin NRPE for Solaris 10 x86 (as the remote host):
useradd -c “nagios system user” -d /usr/local/nagios -m nagios
chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/
cd /usr/local/src # or wherever you like to put source code
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
gunzip nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
tar -xvf nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar
gunzip nrpe-2.12.tar.gz
tar -xvf nrpe-2.12.tar
First we’ll compile the nagios plugins:
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.11
./configure
make
make install
chown [...]
All the mainstream Sun documentation on the Sun Connection or Update Manager expects the server to have a GUI, which I completely don’t understand. As a matter of fact, their whole installation process is just as backwards and assumes the same thing. They have a server package installation, and it installs GNOME, duh! [...]
If you have ever tried to install an instance of Solaris 10 without using one of their default (and highly bloated) options, you know what a pain it is to end up with something you want. Here’s what I found to be usable on Solaris 10 8/07 (Note: I used another installation of CUPS, [...]
As most system administrators, I use the vi text editor a ton in my job. So I am familiar with all the common commands you can run. Today I was wondering if it was possible to change lower case to upper case letters and the opposite, from upper case to lower case letters.
Here’s [...]
