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My last two posts, Starting NRPE via launchd and Nagios NRPE on OS X Server 10.5, concerned getting NRPE to run on OS X Server 10.5 and having it startup at system boot.
However, this is only part of the battle.  Once you have Nagios monitoring setup on your server you also need to have some [...]

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Last week I posted on how to setup NRPE on Mac OS X Server.  Here is what you need to do to make it start up at system boot.
On a Linux or Solaris machine you can just include the call to the daemon in an init script like rc.local and it will be started when [...]

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Recently I was tasked to install the Nagios add-on NRPE on two OS X 10.5 servers.
I read a little on the ‘net about it, but no one actually had much in the way of a walkthrough, so I thought I would fill the void.
The basic steps involve compiling the NRPE source, but doing so involves [...]

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Over the weekend I setup a Ubuntu 8.04 installation in my apartment.  The main purpose was to have a box to use to connect to my Tivo, but I am also going to use it to play with Java servlet and jsp development.
Of course none of this is any fun without Internet access.  So I [...]

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This is part one of a short series of articles detailing the process I went through to restore a friend’s table pc after her hard drive dies due to a head crash.
Background
My friend has a Gateway CX210X Convertible Notebook. This model uses a SATA internal drive. Her drive died sometime last Friday afternoon [...]

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