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Set up Symantec Backup Exec Agent on Ubuntu using Webmin
Firstly – all credit to Ajay Sign who did the original document I worked from. I have purely reworked his efforts and included Webmin as I found it much easier to use. To install RALUS on UBUNTU (any Debian flavor) perform the following steps: First of all – install Webmin – it makes things much easier. You need to ensure you change the port on Webmin to something other than 10000 as the Backup Exec service uses … Read entire article »
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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx on VMware virtual machine
Here’s a quick video demo on installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx on a virtual machine. Assuming you have downloaded the image and set up the VM on your virtual machine package: Once you have got to this stage, its a case of watch it install and reboot. It’s so easy! Good luck. More tutorials to come. … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu server 9.10
SSH onto your server Get the latest version (1.510 to date) wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.510_all.deb Extract and install the package dpkg –install webmin_1.510_all.deb It may error on a few dependencies so to overcome those install these apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl … Read entire article »
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Change your Ubuntu server from a dynamic to static IP address
To allow your Ubuntu server to work with a static IP, you need to amend a couple of files. If you have Webmin installed, its much easier to do this in the network interface section of the System settings. However details below are how to do this from the command ssh terminal prompt. Edit your interface file sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces Change it to look the same as the following – obviously amending it to have your relevant network details in. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 Press shift ZZ to save the file once amended. Amend DNS settings We need to add in the DNS settings by editing the resolv.conf file: sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf On the line nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx replace the x with the IP of your name server. Remove DHCP client This will remove the now … Read entire article »
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PHP Motion install errors on Ubuntu
On installing PHPMotion on an Ubuntu webserver there are a couple of things you need to take into account to fix errors. If your VPS or server is running the 64bit edition of Ubuntu then you need to make sure you download the correct version of the PHP loaders and upload them to your phpmotion/phpshield via binary upload. The 64 bit loaders can be found here: http://phpshield.com/loaders/phpshield.loaders.linux-64.zip If you are getting a similar error to this: {++++} extension_dir does not exists /usr/lib/php/extensions/20060613 then you need to make sure the file phpshield.5.2.lin is copied to the location of your extension_dir and the below line is put in your php.ini file at the bottom: extension=phpshield.5.2.lin Once it is in, restart Apache. … Read entire article »
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Ubuntu 8.04 Nagios Install
Nagios server monitoring is one of the best – if not the best open source server, switch and router monitoring platforms I’ve used. Best of all, because it is open source, it is free. I’ve documented here the method I used to get Nagios 3. Introduction If you follow these instructions the plan is you’ll end up with: Nagios and the plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/nagios Nagios will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.) The Nagios web interface will be accessible at http://localhost/nagios/ or at http://yourWANip/nagios/ Before you start You’ll need to have a command line editor – I recommend Putty for this. Its easier to be logged on as root but if you are not, use the sudo command before typing a command. I’ve put … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu
For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version. Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands: Step 1: cd /usr/src Step 2: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb Step 3: rpm -i webmin-1.500-1.noarch.deb This will install Webmin to https://youripaddressordomain:10000 You may need to do the following steps if not successful: Run the following as some modules may not be installed: sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl If you get errors about it not finding these packages, then enable the universe repositories: sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list remove the # from the universe and multiverse lines and save. Then update the repository settings: sudo apt-get update Run the following to unpack & install: sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb … Read entire article »
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