Munin is a system monitoring program designed to capture and graph performance statistics with minimal configuration. It is significantly easier to configure than MRTG and has a wide variety of plugins. The Ubuntu (Debian) installer will setup a reasonable configuration on installation. It requires one server, and a client daemon on all monitored servers including… Continue reading Monitoring with Munin
Month: April 2010
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu
WordPress is available as a packaged application for Ubuntu. However it requires a bit of post installation configuration. The installation will install the apache2 multi-user server if no server is installed. I modified the installation to run over top of an existing site. The default installation creates directories under /var/www, which I move to /srv.
Setting up Windows
The following guide is intended to help install Windows on system in a secure manner. The steps here are intended to limit the exposure of the system to malware during installation. However, it does not guarantee that malware will not infect the system. There are many known vectors used by malware, some of which are… Continue reading Setting up Windows