Another option is too install these checks on the server that is to be monitored. Then create a user that on that server for these checks and setup ssh keys. You can then wrap these checks inside check_by_ssh. What happens then is Nagios user will ssh into the monitored server, execute the comman...
Sometimes a comment with lots of upvotes is still obsolete and should be removed. This is usually the case, for example, when it requests information that the OP then provides (and provides in such a way that it's clear what information is being provided). There are other situations as well where...
I'm working on the Student badge right now, and each badge is supposed to belong to a category as listed in this Meta post. However, it looks like the Student badge was forgotten about.
I'm guessing it should be under "Asking & answering badges", but I was hoping for confirmation on that
Bounty offered: How to prevent WLAN connection from dropping permanently? http://askubuntu.com/questions/144435/how-to-prevent-wlan-connection-from-dropping-permanently?atw=1 #wireless
for a long time i loved the blob, because it was the only available driver that could use my hardware close to how it was intended by the manufacturer. over the years i liked where nouveau was heading, then finally was happy with intel. now i got a stupid machine that needs nvidia for digital output :(
"Sonic: Let's show this creep the real super power of team work! - Sonic turns super while others get in bubbles - Knuckles: Why am I in a f*cking bubble I can turn super also you idiot. Sonic: Cause were SONIC heroes!"
@htorque: If this is the case when I get a T430 or T530, I'm going to try to finagle some kind of additional discount after I receive it ("It doesn't work! What! At this price?") . FFS, how much is an LVDS 2:1 mux/switch!!
That would make me lean more towards cacheing. My opinion is that some weird load-balancing issue would re-occur. Sometimes the cached page is just a bad pull.
I seem to remember reading that python dictionaries are not intended to be sorted other then by the keys themselves--but it's been a long time since I've done anything with python so take this with a grain of salt
I seem to remember wanting to do a similar thing with a dictionary though, and I had to pull all the information out of the dictionary, put it into an array, and then sort that.
although I could have just given up too quickly on finding a more efficient option :P
@aking1012 the only problem is I'm starting to use Drupal and I'm kicking myself for not being able to code php now
hahaha. I can see were you are coming from. I've got a friend though that needs a fairly complex CMS site, and assembling Drupal modules makes my life a whole lot easy than building everything from scratch myself.
i completely get that. the same is true of people that insist on using wordpress. i sooo can't wait for ondina to go public so there can be more reasonably priced django framework hosting floating around
and... drupal is user-friendly enough that once I have the thing built, I can pass off the administration of the site onto my friend (ulterior motive... hehe)
i understand that too. it's like trying to convince someone they need to properly tag/class their site so you can dynamically pull updates into a mobile app. it's a hard row to hoe
are there any fairly well developed django cms options? The biggest reason I'm going with Drupal is just for the huge modules catalog. I don't have anywhere near enough time to write an entire site--especially the facebook/twitter/blah-blah-blah integration parts? customizing existing modules is one thing, but building from scratch.... :X
@izx oh. i'll nuke the answer then. it just seemed logical that there was something it pulled in as a preinst/postinst and didn't properly declare as a dependency
@adempewolff I haven't looked, but I think if there aren't it is because of hosting costs.
i think we'll see more of these i386 to multi-arch questions for a release or two (at least the change happened on an LTS, so devs are more likely to re-build instead of saying revert to LTS)
@Kangarooo Even if you can connect to VNC on computer A from computer A, that is no guarantee that you will be able to connect from the outside because the router is not involved in the A<->A connection at all. What error do you get, BTW?
Great answer: Does installing Ubuntu change the OS for all users or only the user that downloaded... http://askubuntu.com/questions/144266/does-installing-ubuntu-change-the-os-for-all-users-or-only-the-user-that-downloa/144269?atw=1#144269 #installation
@izx Cannonical should give you a salary. every time I turn around I read another great and well written answer from you (usually the first answer as well) on seemingly every subject. great job!
they might do that already. i've seen a lot of good answers flooding in since we were featured in the installer. i've also seen a lot of fail questions for the same reason
Not necessarily. 1 good answer is worth 5 fail questions. It would just be better if we could close questions as fail instead of needing a reason. The issue is that it sounds very gestapo
Thanks for the compliment, @adempewolff, the result of a youth whiled away dabbling in this and that (although I am still relatively new to all the Unity stuff) :)
speaking of unity, I think it's time for a reboot. I've been limping along for the last day after a unity bug crashed compiz but I was too lazy to even log out so I just restarted compiz....
@JourneymanGeek Unity is actually growing on me. I do dislike how hostile it is to customization, but at the same time, the lack of customizable options makes it a lot more likely that I can help another user because our setups are more likely to be similar.
although I'm pissed that they took out intellihide. that was pretty much the only thing I liked about Unity when it first came out
@jokerdino I don't miss it that much... I think I'm more just upset with how the change happened so quickly and seemingly without any regard for those who wouldn't like it
@JourneymanGeek that's what I thought at first, but I'm beginning to think that Cannonical is beginning to try to maintain more control over the user experience--which I wouldn't wouldn't necessarily blame them for doing if this was the case.
@adempewolff: that would likely annoy me. Every system i have, windows or linux tends to get tweaked to have a dark theme, the same GTK themes for things that need it and so on ;p
@JourneymanGeek I've got a sandbox lamp stack/development environment running in Xubuntu right now. I've been very annoyed with it--most buggy thing I've run in a long time.
@JourneymanGeek so I thought the big difference between xubuntu and ubuntu was the window manager. how would an Xubuntu server be different then a normal ubuntu server?
my physical server is on the other side of the great firewall of China, so I need to have a local virtualized sandbox solution when China decides to just randomly cut SSH connection.
@izx paying off student loans (was going to answer sarcastically but then remembered that I wasn't piping this through my ssh tunnel and saw that this page isn't encrypted, oh the joys of China!)
@izx: well, connections arn't an issue at home (i ssh into the box cause it runs headless), and there's no linux box worth bouncing off, since the issue really is my school wifi is spotty
@izx I teach English here. The pay isn't great compared to salaries in the US, but costs are so low I am able to save more than friends back home making close to 3x as much as me. I'm also here because I'd like to become fluent in Chinese which requires a couple years of immersion.
@adempewolff: I do it regularly, with Win7 hibernating and Ubuntu dual-booting. There's nothing preventing you from doing it. As long as you mount ro it's not a problem, and even a little bit of rw is ok as long as you know what you're doing.
@izx hmm, I haven't tried it recently, but I remember just straight up not being able to do this last time I tried
granted this would have been with XP and... maybe 7.10
I'll remove my answer though if you can give the user a better answer on how to safely do this
although I think it's more an issue of the user not know the difference between shutdown and hibernate than requiring to be able to mount hibernated partitions
@adempewolff there is no safe way to do it for newbies -- and I agree with you and @Mitch that it's not to be recommended in general. I do it more often these days because some AU questions just can't be solved within a VM :)
you know, I might have been thinking of trying to boot into Windows with Ubuntu hibernated.... I just remember not being able to even boot when the other OS was hibernated
@izx okay the verdict is I don't know what I was smoking back in 2007
using Tango Linux (still has hibernate) and XP I was able to use hibernating to switch between the two with no problem.
I was even able to boot into Ubuntu with Tango Studio still hibernated (which, given that they share the same swap partition I was sure wan't going to work)
so, either a) I was hallucinating, b) it was a software thing that is long gone in current (I think Tango Studio is based on 10.04) versions of Ubuntu, or c) it was some weird hardware quark of that particular laptop
