The other day I got a bug report about check_ntpmon, which was reporting UNKNOWN status back to Nagios even though everything seemed to be working fine. A bit of debugging revealed that it was receiving the message on standard error: ntpq: write...
I discovered a bug with BackupPC's error reporting. This has hit me more than once (evidenced by the deja vu I experienced when debugging the problem), but I mustn't have written down the solution previously. A quick Google (by which I mean...
It must be the week for stupid error messages. I just tried to create a private SSL certificate for one of our server VMs from our Novell eDirectory iManager server. The CSR was created by OpenSSL on the command line on the Ubuntu server, and i...
Last week i made some fairly significant changes on a client's production firewall/routing cluster during our maintenance window. The next morning there were reports of file server drives not connecting correctly and inaccessible web sites. ...