December 2013 archive

Read Only Friday

It was about 2 years ago I first heard the concept of Read Only Friday. I thought it was great then, but having worked in a customer-facing role for the last year, especially in an organization that doesn’t practice ROF (and part of my customer-service role includes weekend support), the more I see the shining …

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Nagios 4 on Ubuntu 13.10

Last night I installed Nagios 4 on an Ubuntu 13.10 VM running on my VMWare ESXi machine. I followed through the steps listed here, which worked overall: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Nagios_Core_4_Installation_on_Ubuntu_12.04.html I did run into a small number of issues which should be documented for anyone trying this on a later install of Ubuntu, but raymii isn’t allowing …

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