Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will know, at all times, the status of your latest backup run:
Quisiéramos creer que nuestra moral viene de nuestra sana capacidad para emitir juicios racionales… pero eso es solo un deseo. Un fascinante experimento revela lo contrario:
TorrentFlux-b4rt is an awesome masterpiece of engineering. You install it on your Web server, and then you can start downloading BitTorrent torrents right away. The catch is that those torrents are saved in your Web server until you actually download them to your PC. And having to schedule downloads separately is a pain. Well, no more.
Don’t you hate it when you leave a shell open and you can’t unmount a disk volume because the shell has a firm grip on a directory in that disk? Well, there’s a solution.
Diagnosing server (and desktop, and network) load issues is always tricky. When an application misbehaves for short bursts of time, it’s often a matter of guesswork to find out which.
Hello! Here’s a nifty article on the Server management series. Today, we’ll learn how to automate Nagios service checks via SSH, even when the remote server does not support password-less (key-based) SSH logins.
Perhaps you’ve read the fabulous Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands - Guide - Short-Media already. Perhaps not. But what happens when you can’t even get to the recovery console?
Hello, again! Continuing the (now lengthy) Server management series, this time we’ll learn how to set up a mail server, using the famous and very secure Postfix mail server package.
Hello, again! For this article in the Server management series, we’ll explore an uncommon use of Subversion — instead of using it for source code management, you’ll be using it as a tool to make server administration painless and error-proof.
Detecting and correcting problems with applications at early stages is an important role of the server manager. Unfortunately, not all errors are detected at the testing stages. Even more unfortunate is the fact that most errors go undetected because they are usually triggered when a certain set of criteria is met.
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