Cacti, SNMP and Gentoo
Here are the instructions I followed to get SNMP and Cacti working on Gentoo: emerge cacti cacti-cactidgroupadd cactiuseradd -g cacti -G cron cactiuser cd…
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Journal archive
2005
From the journal archive.
8 entriesGentoo nano and word wrap
Well I said in my initial Gentoo post that I would detail how to make Nano the text editor default to non-word wrap mode so you don’t have to specify the -w option everytime to…
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The other side of the Lostcoast
Well I was happily running around the lostcoast in HL2 last week and I fell of the bloody cliff. Bugger. I managed to survive and therefore went for a walk. This is where I ended…
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Gentoo Use Flags for MythTV
Well after much mucking around I think I have finally got MythTV and Gentoo Linux working as required. I have had to install a fair bit of extra stuff to do the things I want but…
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Upgrading the hard drive
This guide is extremely useful if you want to upgrade your hard drive in Linux. I have done it twice now and it works really well.…
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Gentoo MythTV and Dvico DVB
OMG what a world of hurt I have put myself in. I decided to upgrade my computer at home so I could play Battlefield 2 properly. So now I have a DFI Nforce 4 SLI motherboard with…
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Enable SNMP performance monitoring on HP-UX
Log onto the operator station using telnet Go to the /etc/rc.config.d directory: cd /etc/rc.config.d Edit the following files using vi: SnmpHpunix SnmpMaster SnmpMib2 Vi isn’t…
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Installing Gentoo
Well I have decided to have a play with a Linux distribution. I chose Gentoo because of the flexibility and the fact that it has a good user support base. I have started using…
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