When you start up your Windows Mobile device (with a custom ROM) in Canada and probably some other parts of the world, the handy little wizard will tell you that there’s no operator in the database, with a message like this: “The operator does not exist in the database. Please contact your operator for the [...]
For any of you using Nagios Administrator, and you’re native English speakers, the fact that it always defaults to German may irk you. Here’s how to do it. Thanks to h-w on the Nagios Portal Forums. # cd /var/www/nagiosadmin # cd apps/backend/config/ # nano i18n.yml and change the default_culture: de to default_culture: en # cd [...]
It’s easy, once you have nagiosadministrator installed, you’ll probably notice there’s no easy way to actually reach nagios. To add a quick button to the toolbar to do this, follow these steps: 1. SSH to server running nagios/nagiosadministrator 2. Go to your nagios administrator directory, ours is /var/www/nagiosadmin 3. Now, edit the menu file [...]
Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0′s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error: “VCommand [...]
Here’s a little howto on merging multiple apache log files when you are migrating servers or want to consolidate your logs into one place. This works on ubuntu and debian, but your mileage may vary on other OS’s. Here’s the howto: Login to old server scp old log files over, to the admin home directory, [...]
Have you ever wondered how you could access your external hostnames, internal to your network connected via wifi, mobile devices or just plain old desktops? Today we found out we needed to. Our mobile devices require the use of external hostnames to sync data against. And it’s nice being able to use our external hostname [...]
