The last couple of days I have been working on a new project I want to introduce: IcingaBusylightAgent. It all began with a new telephony system in our office. Instead of using physical phones, my colleagues are now using softphones. In addition to this, a gadget called Busylight representing the instant messenger …

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Rcently I packaged the software scponly for Enterprise Linux using rpmbuild and stumbled upon an error message: 1$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS 2$ rpmbuild -ba scponly.spec 3checking for libgiertz... 4... 5/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 scponly /home/cstan/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/scponly-4.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/bin/scponly …

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Using OMD it is possible to setup a working monitoring for checking infrastructure setups just within minutes. But - what monitored OMD-relevant processes? Usually, a OMD site consists of multiple pre-configured services such as: Icinga or Nagios Apache web server Cron service rrdcached (for RRD graphs) npcd …

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If you're creating your own Wordpress theme and want to pimp photo galleries you will probably use a Lightbox plugin like Simple Lightbox, wp-jquery-lightbox or WP Lightbox 2. If you're not very familiar in creating Wordpress themes in addition (like me) you might forget the following lines and wonder why linked photos …

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