Category Archives: sysadmin

The version of Monit in the Dapper repositories is old. Installing version 4.9 of monit makes sense to me, so that is what I did. sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential bison flex wget http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/monit-4.9.tar.gz tar xvzf monit-4.9.tar.gz cd monit-4.9/ ./configure … Continue reading →

If you use Monit and DenyHosts together…make sure you put ‘ALL: 127.0.0.1′ in your /etc/hosts.allow…DenyHosts sees monits checks and thinks it’s a ssh attack.

At work we launched the new colo over last weekend. In the aftermath it was time to get pam_abl installed. However for some reason it wouldn’t work. I found one blog post that suggested that the OpenSSH server that is … Continue reading →