Installing nagios3 on debian4 etch

2009-07-19 Thread Kelly Jones
I want to install nagios3 on my debian4 etch system, but "apt-get install nagios3" yields "Couldn't find package nagios3". What should I add to /etc/apt/sources.list? In general, how do I find which source provides a given package, and what are good sources to add to sources.list? I'm running a

Sniffing traffic to a named pipe

2009-07-15 Thread Kelly Jones
I have a blackbox program that reads/writes to a named pipe. I want to see what's being written w/o interfering w/ the program. What's the easiest way to do this? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resist

Cheap Debian VPS servers

2009-06-22 Thread Kelly Jones
Who are the cheapest Debian VPS server providers? Reason: I'm setting up a cluster of cheap, small-disk, low-memory Debian VPSs (running lighttpd, tinydns, etc). For redundancy, I need VPSs from several different providers, not several VPSs from one provider. Here's what I've found so far (I'm no

Re: Sendmail to send mail only, using MX records

2009-06-21 Thread Kelly Jones
On 6/21/09, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kelly Jones wrote: >> I have sendmail installed on etch, > > Is there a reason not to upgrade to Lenny, the current stable? This > is outside of your current problem but you really should think about > keeping current. I plan to use a clus

Sendmail to send mail only, using MX records

2009-06-21 Thread Kelly Jones
I have sendmail installed on etch, but not running as a daemon. When I do: # echo "Test" | /usr/lib/sendmail f...@bar.com the logs show this: Jun 21 11:13:51 debian sendmail[3924]: n5LFDpSS003924: to=...@bar.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30005, relay

What packages has aptitude installed on my server?

2008-05-30 Thread Kelly Jones
I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package. Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way? Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology.

Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

2008-05-24 Thread Kelly Jones
I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents, lists, etc. Is there a Unix tool that does this? I know SharePoint has an "API", which basically spoofs the GET/POST calls that your browser would make(?).

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

2007-03-17 Thread Kelly Jones
ECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:44, Kelly Jones wrote: > shows that all PHP5 packages are "virtual"-- they're only used to > satisfy dependencies. I'd just install the virtual packages and see whether it works. They might have dependencies on the a

How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

2007-03-17 Thread Kelly Jones
I tried to install PHP5 (both as an Apache module and as a standalone), but this command: # aptitude search php5 v libapache-mod-php5 - v libapache2-mod-php5 - v php5- v php5-cgi- v php5-cli