Notes, Solutions, and Rants

Doing this on FreeBSD so you might need to modify the bash location for other OS choices #!/usr/local/bin/bash backupdir=/home/backup/ backupfile=`date +backup-%d-%m-%y_%H.sql` tarfile=mysqlbackup.tar cd $backupdir mysqldump --opt -A -h localhost --pas… more »

By default you get an error that no interfaces are available when you try to capture traffic. This is because you don't have access to the necessary parts of /dev/To fix it:sudo chown username /dev/bpf* more »

The environment I work in now is large enough that simply looking for the flashing orange lights, and hoping I notice it before we have multiple drive failures, is no longer sufficient. NagiosExchange has several pluggins that will report back from Dell… more »