Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

- use the latest - centos 6. I have run nagios on centos for many years, it works well ... the main problem is that the default config has changed several times, directories changed, etc, which has broken it several times ... not to hard to get working again, but a pain. -- Alain Williams Linux/GN

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

, use Dag's archive: rsync://apt.sw.be/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/ -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

em. It is very much worth installing yum-priorities and making base & update have low values. > Compiling nagios from source is dead simple and well documented. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 78

[Nagios-users] Dependencies

d. I also check (twice/day) that the clock on A is accurate, that will only work if NTP works, ie also depends on B, but is very much tied to A. TIA -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.

Re: [Nagios-users] montitoring a system only via email-transport of status-informations

r so. I announced it to little interest, I'll check out what I have and put it up somewhere. I may be part way though an upgrade of what it does, I can't remember since it is some time since I have tinkered with it. -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networkin

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

metimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying > makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. > > Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, > I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. +1 And who knows ... on

[Nagios-users] Proper use of this list

who used a MUA that supports threading get confused if you do not. While I am at it: please remove irrelevant/old stuff at the bottom of emails that you reply to. Thank you -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 78

[Nagios-users] Sharing local/remote machine .cfg

R11$=0 as appropriate for the machine. This does not work. Why ? and is there a way of achieving what I want to do ? TIA -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Com

Re: [Nagios-users] Sharing local/remote machine .cfg

he hosts/services inherit > that template. Something like -- > ... Did that, it works -- thanks. -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registra

Re: [Nagios-users] domain hijacking: using Nagios to monitor 100s (possibly 1000s) of domains / hosts

ell will method scale to several thousand? > > Someone I know recently said that he has to worry about close to 300,000 > domains getting possibly hijacked. Is this beyond Nagios at this point? Is nagios the right sort of tool for this ? Would you not be better writing a perl scri

Re: [Nagios-users] execute command as root user

cron-job), whenever that > file exists ? Something else ? Use the 'sudo' command. Alternately: write a short program in C, that is setuid root, that execs the init script. You MUST think carefully about the security implications of doing this - put appropriate checks in. -- Alain