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	<title>Ubergeek Technical Howtos'</title>
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	<description>A few thoughts and hopefully helpful howtos for the Open Source community!</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Monitoring hardware through VMWare ESXi and Nagios</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/11/monitoring-hardware-through-vmware-esxi-and-nagios/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/11/monitoring-hardware-through-vmware-esxi-and-nagios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dell]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[esxi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently installed some VMWare ESXi machines running on Dell hardware.  These are pretty standard PowerEdge 2850 and 2950 servers.
One of the big problems on ESXi is how to monitor the health of the hardware when using ESXi.

As I also use Nagios I just did a quick search through NagiosExchange and found this little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mpt-status failure after linux kernel upgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/mpt-status-failure-after-linux-kernel-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/mpt-status-failure-after-linux-kernel-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[openmanage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[snmp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dell openmanage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mpt-status]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh the pain!
So Debian Etch needs another kernel image upgrade, which I dutifully performed and rebooted the system and mpt-status stopped working!  I only noticed the problem when I got a warning alert SMS from Nagios, upon further investigation (using mpt-status autoload) I got this error message:-

Quick Code
# mpt-status autoload
open /dev/mptctl: No such file or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nc_net startup fails if nsclient not uninstalled correctly</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/nc_net-startup-fails-if-nsclient-not-uninstalled-correctly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/nc_net-startup-fails-if-nsclient-not-uninstalled-correctly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nc-net]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have quite a few Windows boxes that need monitoring from Nagios and mostly everything is pretty straightforward.  I used to use the old nsclient utility until I started to need to run custom scripts on my machines at which point I shifted to nc_net which is a lot more advanced and currently under active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSpam cgi running slowly in web browser</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dspam-cgi-running-slowly-in-web-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dspam-cgi-running-slowly-in-web-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[dspam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=12</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post about DSPAM Suexec problems I also ran into a further problem recently with our DSPAM server&#8230;&#8230;
We get A LOT of mail through this system and when I say a lot I mean s***loads, the last count was 51 million emails processed in 9 months!!!!  Anyway, DSPAM uses a set of perl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streaming Media with Firefox on FreeBSD</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/realplayer-mplayer-firefox-freebsd-howto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/realplayer-mplayer-firefox-freebsd-howto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[firefox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mplayer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=11</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After much testing and general messing about, I have found that the mplayer-plugin for firefox works much better than the realplayer plugin (IMHO).  It not only streams typical realmedia but also streams quicktime, windows media (wmv etc) and pretty much every other type of media out there.  Also, you do not need the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dspam on FreeBSD Apache suexec problems</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dspam-freebsd-apache-suexec/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/07/dspam-freebsd-apache-suexec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dspam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[suexec]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=10</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I thought upgrading Apache for a DSPAM anti-spam/anti-virus machine was going to be straightforward!?!?
What was I thinking?  OK, so FreeBSD&#8217;s ports system is great and generally handles upgrades effortlessly, but I had forgotten what was required for DSPAM and in particular the SUEXEC module.

The default SUEXEC settings on the FreeBSD Apache port will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love Nagios</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/i-love-nagios/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/i-love-nagios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=8</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;.mainly because it has saved me from being totally unaware of &#8220;stuff going wrong&#8221;!  Just a few words for the uninitiated though:-


Use a GUI config tool, not because the config files are hard to understand but more because its easier to do templates, creates parent/child relationships and see the logic of your setup.  I use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Openmanage on Linux Debian</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/dell-openmanage-on-linux-debian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/dell-openmanage-on-linux-debian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dell]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dual booting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[openmanage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[snmp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[debian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iptables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever tried to get any Hardware Management software running for a major vendor (i.e. Dell or HP) for any Linux system other than Redhat you will have no doubt endured some considerable pain&#8230;&#8230;hopefully, you have found this post and it may have eased that pain somewhat :).

I have put this together using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/openvpn-freebsd-pf-windows-howto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/openvpn-freebsd-pf-windows-howto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[openvpn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[windows xp]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This howto is a quick a dirty guide to building OpenVPN on a FreeBSD box (running pf as the firewall), and then connecting a Windows XP client to it.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Dual Boot FreeBSD and Windows XP using GRUB</title>
		<link>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/grub-freebsd-windowsxp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/2008/05/grub-freebsd-windowsxp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[dual booting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freebsd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[grub]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[windows xp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dual boot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/blog/?p=5</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever needed to dual boot Windows XP with FreeBSD and wanted to do it via Grub?

Well, here's how!]]></description>
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