Upload the tar to user server. scp ./icinga-1.2.1.tar.gz osaka[at]nationpigeon.com:./icinga/ Extract it tar -xvf icinga-1.2.1.tar.gz ./configure make make all Then I got an error on make install, said there was no user ‘icinga’ so I created one. useradd -m icinga passwd icinga And it worked fine. Created a group for the user so it can send [...]
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21.01.11 - How to install Icinga Debian [UNFINISHED]
21.01.11 - ssh login with out password
If you frequently use ssh to login or run commands on a remote machine, it might be helpful for you if you did not have to not enter a password each time you want to connect to the server, this can be done by uploading your public ssh key to the servers ssh files. With [...]
21.01.11 - rm exclude
With help from Google and Linux forum, found a cool command that will delete everything else but not the folder or file name in the specified field behold the command of destiny! rm -r `ls | grep -v ‘snapshots’` Make sure that around the piped ls command you have tilda and a single quote around [...]
21.01.11 - Some info on apt
apt-get install food apt is a very cool and easy to use package manager for UNIX based systems. Here are some simple and effective commands that might help you do things XD apt-get update – makes sure that all the information is newest. apt-get upgrade – checks for all packages that needs to be updated. [...]
01.01.11 - Minecraft Server
Yay for minecraft. We have set up a nationpigeon minecraft server located at 213.229.116.101 ornationpigeon.com. Its all in testing mode at the moment, so it might explode. Hopfully it will work well if not tell me and I’ll see what I can do. Enjoy Pete ^____^
31.12.10 - New Host
Good news, I found a cheap Linux Virtual Server to use. Which means lots of fun. So I have moved NationPigeon from streamline, which are not very good, to allsimple.net. The advantages of this is that I have complete control over the server. *explosion* Also the fact that its a Virtual machine means that I [...]
12.12.10 - Netbeans illegal instruction Ubuntu
If you keep getting ‘illegal instruction’ whilst trying to run simple working code in using NetBeans and Ubuntu. It Can help if you disable profiling on your project. simply project -> properties -> profiling .. disable all. Might help, Pete
08.12.10 - Safe Site
Hey, Yeah now that Google believe that this is a nice friendly and safe site I might post up some more things. For the past month or so Google listed this site as an attacked site. All remains of the attack have been cleared up and sorted out.
08.10.10 - Generate 1000 random words using UNIX
I need 1000 random words in non-alphabetical order, don’t ask why… I just do. So after looking though the ‘bin‘ folder for a program that might generate these words and found nothing, I decided to head to the internet. This is where I found out about the ‘words‘ file which is located in ‘/usr/dict/words‘ this [...]
13.09.10 - Ubuntu menu left to right
In the latest versions of Ubuntu, they tend to have the default theme set to have the close, minimise and maximise options on the left hand side of the screen. To change this simply go to the gconf-editor (Alt + F2 – “gconf-editor“) Then change apps->metacity->general->button_layout to have the colon at the front instead of [...]