Its quite amazing google latitude alows you to track down the location of your mobile or your friends. It works kind of like a GPS but it dosent require a GPS. It will send a msg with a link to […]
Learning RRD
“RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings” RRD […]
Currency rate monitor script
Using Nagios I am able to monitor the currency conversion rate, so I can know exactly when to sell my currency and to buy my currency. I wrote a creative plugin to nagios that does just that! Its not my […]
Uninstall Gnome and Office
If you have a server there is no need of the GUI interface, is there? A good linux admin will never need it. So I am removing it, here are the commands: Remove GUI (Gnome) # apt-get remove gnome* # […]
Nagios Nuvola Style
*****Make Nagios Pretty ( Nuvola Style ) First Backup /usr/local/nagios/share/*..html and all stylesheets directory. # tar -cvvf defaultweb.tar /usr/local/nagios/share/ # cd /usr/local/nagios/share # wget http://www.xoroz.com/files/nagiosstyle.zip # unzip nagiosstyle.zip Set the permissions # chown nagios:nagios *.* # chown nagios:nagios -R side […]
Squid howto
This week I setup a cool Squid Proxy for our network at the office. What it does? Follow also the HowTo Setup SquidGuard 1. Caches the websites people visit, so it usess less bandwith and improve performance 2. Allow managers […]
Iptables howto
IPTABLES basic commands List current rules: # iptables -L -v Remove all previous rules: # iptables -F Don’t disconnect ESTABLISHED connections: # iptables -A INPUT -m state –state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Drop any Broadcast and Multicast # iptables -A INPUT […]