Resources for network installation and troubleshooting
I finally had to upgrade my home router from an aging WRT54GL and went (despite missing dd-wrt for now) with the Linksys E3200. I installed yesterday including dyndns support because I sometimes access my home network when away. I was surprised to receive an email from dyndns this morning stating that my host has...
This was a funny one: I have installed the Bandwithd monitoring software on a machine. I noticed that the monitoring data kept being erased between start/stop or reboot. There actually are two configuration settings which are false by default that allows BandwidthD to keep it’s data across restart’s (or system reboots) and those are...
Ever happened to you that you create a user with privileges to connect from any host but it won’t connect from the localhost? Like this: View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [root@18969_1_490528 tmp]# mysql -u test_user -puser_pass ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'test_user'@'localhost' (using...
I was struggling with Nagios Grapher (or was it nagiosgraph – I tested both) in Slackware 13.1 After installing all dependencies it would still refuse to work. I tracked the problem pretty easy to be related to Perl not being able to load the librrd.so.4 library. That was funny as I was sure that...
I have a home server I use for all kinds of stuff when I’m away. I have set it up recently so that it can serve a folder mounted over the network from a Windows machine. And this is where the fun started! The folders and files appear correctly, I can navigate and I...
A backup NAS I set up for a client had some problems – i.e. from time to time the network card would hang forcing a reboot (the machine was headless). The disks in the nas are RAID 1 providing redundancy in case of failure. We wanted the same with the network. So, nothing easier...
Recently I set-up a machine in my closet to act as a backup server. One of it’s jobs is to download via pop3 all the email from our Gmail accounts just in case the cloud goes puf . For this job I used fetchmail to fetch the emails to local users on the machine....
As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares. Please note that you’ll need to know the following: Windows...
I have a headless machine at home that I plan to use as a backup and development server. Even though I’m a Skackware guy I chose to install Debian on it. Of course I could have hooked a monitor and keyboard to it but for the sake of exercise I wanted to see if...
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