Installing Remmina (RDP, SSH, VNC and NX Client with tabs!) from Source on Ubuntu

May 14th, 2010 | Posted by ProfFalken in Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (19 Comments)

EDIT: I am not involved in the remmina project, it just helped me out when I first created this blog post.  If you do need support on the project, I suggest you check out the official support forms.

 

Remmina rocks. One window with tabs for all your RDP, VNC, SSH and NX connections is awesome!

Here are some (very) brief instructions on getting it installed on Ubuntu Lucid: (more…)

Issues Upgrading from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny

February 16th, 2009 | Posted by ProfFalken in Computer Security | Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (0 Comments)

OK, so I tried to run the upgrade last night and I’ve ended up with a few issues. This could be my fault, however I did follow the instructions found on the debian website and had to resolve multiple dependencies.

The minor issues I’ve encountered:

  1. slocate appears to have been removed and replaced with mlocate.
  2. Apache is complaining about NameVirtualHost not being set anywhere for both *:80 and *:443, yet the config files show otherwise

The Major issues I’ve discovered:

  1. MySQL Server was uninstalled as part of the upgrade. The only way I have been able to re-install it is to run dpkg –set-selections < packages.list where packages.list was the file I created using dpkg –set-selections as part of the upgrade.
  2. BackupPC requires complete analysis of the config file to work out which parameters have not been defined in the old config so it will run.
  3. OcsInventory (admittedly installed from source so not a Debian problem) causes Apache2 to fail on startup owing to a missing perl module.

The solutions:

  1. Install mlocate and run updatedb
  2. Re-install OCSInventory and restart Apache2
  3. update the backuppc-config file using Meld to import the new variables and the backuppc wiki to migrate from v2 to v3.

Wasn’t that fun? :oP

BackupPC and SVN

November 15th, 2008 | Posted by ProfFalken in Computer Security | Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (0 Comments)

I’ve been using BackupPC for the last year to securely backup servers to a remote location over Rsync and SSH, however I recently stumbled across an issue with backing up the SVN root directory on an SVN server.

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Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch.

November 2nd, 2008 | Posted by ProfFalken in Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (2 Comments)

One of my previous posts concerned how to install Nagios3 from source on Debian Etch.  One of the comments I recieved was that you should generally use the packages available for install.  I agree with this entirely, however there’s no challenge in just using the packages and I’ve found myself getting lazy when it comes to installing stuff recently, so here’s how to install the excellent Puppet configuration management engine from source on Debian Etch.

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Installing Nagios3 on Debian Etch

June 11th, 2008 | Posted by ProfFalken in Computer Security | Linux | Open-Source | Trouble shooting - (5 Comments)

Please note these are more notes for me than a finished write-up, however I hope to document this on the Nagios WIKI in due course…

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