open-vm-tools for Debian Etch
Posted on Thursday, 27th March, 2008 in Life
Well, after a loooong time of trying to get the modules and all the other stuff (read: init-script for the guest daemon and modules) working, I think I’m about there.
I finally fixed a long-standing issue, with the postinst/prerm scripts, and the tools should be about ready. Gonna try and send it Daniel Baumann’s way (that is the Debian Maintainer), for proper inclusion into Lenny.
I (successfully) tried splitting the Xorg parts from the “normal” open-vm-tools, as I usually don’t want Xorg installed on *any* of my virtual machines. Thus leaving me with open-vm-tools, open-vm-modules and open-vm-toolbox (and open-vm-source) as a list of packages one could install.
Nagios & plugins
Posted on Saturday, 6th October, 2007 in Life
Since we started utilizing Nagios’s power two months ago, I finally came up with a C-based ram-plugin for nagios. The biggest problem I had with the python and perl based plugins, that some distributions (yes, SLES and Debian) don’t install either Python or Perl.
Since I wanted a manageable setup (as in unified code base across all distributions), I wanted it to work without installing too much. So I took the swap plugin and basically removed what wasn’t necessary and voila!
Here we go, yay ME!
Only thing I need to finish sometime soon, is getting the NSClient++ work on my Windows boxen (which I do have quite a few, the domain controllers, nas-cluster, …)
Being oblivious
Posted on Saturday, 8th September, 2007 in Life
Well, the title nearly says everything .. I managed to loose my second pair of car keys, today I somehow found out that I was driving without a drivers license, so I have to go to the registration office and apply for a new one, hopefully should be done in about 4-6 weeks. Oh hell, and I have to spend about 40 € on it ..
Well, live kinda sucks if you’re oblivious. Anyway, work is giving me a ass-load of fun right now, so I’m kinda happy, though it’s Saturday evening, I’m sitting back home, just lost all my custom build Debian packages (yes, I happen to use that at work, right after SLES) and listening to Hed PE.