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SNMPD auf Ubuntu funktionsfähig bekommen

Wolfgang — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:53:16 +0000

Snmpd auf Ubuntu zu installieren scheint einfach zu sein, ist es auch, aber hat bei mir nie wirklich 100% funktioniert. Der snmpd funktionierte immer nur lokal, aber nicht für entfernte Zugriffe meines cacti Servers. Das Problem ist jenes, dass Ubuntu standartmässig den snmpd auf dem Loopback Interface startet, was Zugriffe von aussen verhindert. Meine /etc/default/snmpd …

(English) Ubuntu: networking tip

Wolfgang — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:18:47 +0000

But when i tried to ping some other machine, this didn't work :-( I checked /var/log/messages and the onboard Broadcom Interface showed up as eth1, but i was not able to start it. When i ran $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart i got some error messages like: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1 eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device No clue what went wrong, i googled a lot and finally i stumbled upon this forum entry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221768 Then i ran: $ ifconfig -a and got a list with my network interfaces and more importantly with it's MAC address.

(English) Ubuntu Server insecurity?

Wolfgang — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:35:04 +0000

i just found out that my Ubuntu Server 6.10 has login shells for almost all users set in the /etc/passwd file! That's a very bad idea because this maybe enabled someone to install "Data Cha0s Back Backdoor" on my machine :-( I checked this with 2 other fresh Ubuntu Server 6.10 installations and both also had the login shells for users like daemon, mail, www-data and so on. Especially www-data should not have a chance to create a shell in my opinion!

(English) Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10

Wolfgang — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:11:17 +0000

The installation script for Flash Media Server works only on RedHat Enterprise by default. With some modifications it works fine on Ubuntu Edgy: apt-get install libnspr4 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashmediaserver/ updates/2_0_3/linux/flashmediaserver2.tar.gz tar xfz flashmediaserver2.tar.gz cd FMS* wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/fms.patch patch -p1 < fms.patch sudo ./installFMS Live aus der Marschrutka âˆš?Â¬Âª Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy this howto is written bei Markus Bertheau, please check the original article and his blog here.

(English) The power of vim

Wolfgang — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:30:45 +0000