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Lubuntu - SSH & VNC

Posted 06-09-2013 at 07:23 AM by markyd
Updated 10-16-2013 at 05:24 AM by markyd

Sunday 9th June - 21013

Spending so much time away from home (booo) means I have to get smarter and remoting into things with SSH & VNC, rather than rip off others work I will just post a link to a rather comprehensive information source:

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Lubuntu/RemoteDesktop

...... when I have completed all of the above I will report back on how it went :-)

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Incremental backup using diff for BIG projects

Posted 06-09-2013 at 01:46 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 06-09-2013 at 05:52 AM by rainbowsally

Tags base64 self-extractor, commandline, computer mad science, general madness, tools

Note: This blog entry will to go away soon. Another version is in the works.

Note also that having the entire files rather than just a code snippet like a patch makes it easy see as much context as you need in order to recreate a change log by looking at ONLY the files that were changed from one build to another.

KDE's 'kompare' is an excellent utility for viewing changes.

So for now, since this is a little buggy (not serious but needs tweeking), consider...

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Adding Linux client to Nagios server

Posted 06-07-2013 at 07:44 AM by kashifazizawan (Kashif Aziz Awan)
Updated 06-12-2013 at 05:33 AM by kashifazizawan (add more information)

Adding Linux client to Nagios server
Kashif Aziz Awan
kashifaziz@ciit.net.pk
June 7, 2013 www.fb.com/kashifazizawan

Now let us add some clients to monitor by Nagios server.
Add the EPEL repository to install “nagios-plugins” and “nrpe” packages in client systems.

[root@client ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm
[root@client ~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

...

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How to install SNMP v3 for Centos 6.x & RHEL

Posted 06-07-2013 at 05:54 AM by kashifazizawan (Kashif Aziz Awan)

Kashif Aziz Awan
kashifaziz@ciit.net.pk
June 7, 2013 www.fb.com/kashifazizawan

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an “Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks”. SNMPv3 moves away from the community string idea from older version, and into a username & password combo. The installation and setup is actually pretty straight forward. Here’s what you need to do:

##yum install net-snmp-utils net-snmp-devel

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Overview of Software Projects

Posted 06-06-2013 at 09:10 PM by ttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)

Writing software is one of my favorite pastimes. I derive great satisfaction from designing and implementing tools, giving people new and needed capabilities.

Unfortunately I have more projects underway than time and energy to give them all the attention I'd like. I struggle to apply discipline to finish some projects before starting others, with mixed success. Some of my tools are useful now, while others are works in various states of progress (or neglect).

Some...

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