http://www.utahsysadmin.com Ramblings of a Utah System Administrator Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't posted for awhile because I have been super busy. I don't think I have had a chance to post anything since EMC announced they were going to buy Iomega in the beginning of May. That sale has now gone through earlier this week, but the workload ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/06/15/find-large-files-in-multiple-directories/ I read this post by Matt Cutts awhile back (I recommend subscribing to his blog, some useful stuff there) and now that my blog is getting to the point where people are commenting on my posts and I am commenting back, it made sense to implement this on my blog. ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/29/author-highlighting/ Well, it's one of the great and annoying things about open source software - frequent code changes, updates, and security releases.  Version 2.5 of WordPress came out less then a month ago.  I decided, I'd wait for the first subversion release (2.5.1), which, of course, would inevitably fix problems with ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/25/upgrading-wordpress/ So I needed more swap space, but didn't have any more space on the current disk. What to do? Add another drive and set it up as swap space. The only caveat is that I am running the 32 bit version of Solaris 10, which has a ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/10/how-to-add-a-swap-drive-to-solaris-10/ To rename a Solaris 10 server, simply change these three files and then reboot: /etc/nodename /etc/inet/hosts /etc/hostname.hme0 (change hme0 to whatever the network interface name is) Another piece that makes sense to change, although not necessary is the dump space where you save crash dumps. To fix this is also easy: cd /var/crash mv ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/08/rename-a-solaris-10-server/ So I purchased a premium SSL EV (Extended Validation) certificate from GoDaddy awhile back for a customer.  It all sounded like a good idea, there are many reports that talk about the lower abandonment rates in shopping carts, thanks to the green address bar.  Besides the fact that they cost ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/05/premium-ev-ssl-certificates/ I had a problem getting a CSR to work in GoDaddy's SSL certificate wizard, it would never accept the CSR. I am working with their support currently, but I wanted to validate the CSR on my own first. This is how I did it: openssl req -noout -text -in domain.com.csr Update: ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/04/01/validating-a-csr-with-openssl/ 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 ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/27/validate-packages-in-solaris-10/ 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 ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/14/configuring-nagios-plugins-nrpe-on-solaris-10/ 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, ... http://www.utahsysadmin.com/2008/03/11/registering-solaris-10-from-the-command-line-cli/