Installing backup2l on CentOS

Installation http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ rpm für CentOS Hier mein RPM für CentOS, es kopiert das backup2l binary nach /usr/bin/ und installiert ein Beispiel-Configfile nach /etc/backup2l.conf. Es richtet jedoch …

nagios nsca wrapper

nsca vs. nrpe Personally i favor nrpe as I can control at a central point which checks are really run. I can have 30 checks in the config but, use only 5 of them. With nsca you have to adjust the cronjob-list on every …

nagios checks too slow

lately i came across a really dumb problem. Our nagios server sucked like hell and I couldn’t find the source of the problem. I was tuning nagios-parameters but nothing changed. The server had low load and cpu-usage, but …

Gnome multi line taskbar / windowlist

For quite some time I was looking for a solution to have a multi-line gnome taskbar. Under windows you can just drag your taskbar and the windowlist chooser expands to multiple lines. Now I learned: under gnome its …

nfs: Stale File Handle with LVM partitions

recently I was having a problem with NFS. I wanted to export a quite large NFS-Volume (20TB) and when I tried to mount it on the client there was always the error nfs: Stale File Handle I couldn’t find the error and read …

streaming fun for everyone

How to setup a complete HTML5 live-streaming environment in less than 30 minutes. Prerequisites some kind of linux root server (can also be vserver), i prefer debian or ubuntu a linux computer (best a laptop) with …

Limit Bacula Network Usage with trickle

bacula is a great backupsoftware, but sometimes the backup mustn’t use all the available bandwith. bacula itself has no speed limitations built in, but it is easy, to use trickle to accomplish this. I use trickle only on …

oracle day 2: datafile is missing

playing around with oracle the other day I added a new tablespace and thought it would be smart to put the corresponding datafile on my tmp-directory. At first everything worked fine, now some days later I wanted to …

oracle day 1: first steps with oracle

recently I am familiarizing myself with the Oracle Database and I want to share my first impressions with you. A good start seemed to me the free oracle-xe version. I started the install with this tutorial and everything …

Installing OTRS on CentOS 5

The rpm-packages for CentOS can easily be downloaded from http://otrs.org/download/ . Install with yum wget http://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/RPMS/fedora/4/otrs-2.4.5-01.noarch.rpm yum install --nogpgcheck …