Tag: linux

  • Error mongoDB under Ubuntu – can’t find libmozjs.so

    When installing MongoDB under Ubuntu, one could stumble upon the following problem: mongo: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This is caused because MongoDB uses XulRunner for it’s operations. (This is also why you see a bunch of X11 programs that are to be installed…

  • Reverse proxy for sharepoint on Linux using HAProxy

    At Nakheel, we needed to load balance a new sharepoint instance. Our new sharepoint is single sign on, and was running on 2 web servers which needed to be load balanced. We played around with Apache for a while, and it’s awesome proxy balancer, but it gave us the problem that it was always asking…

  • Change the ILO server name under Linux

    At work, we have a lot of HP Blade servers, and manage these through HP Onboard Administrator. By default, the server names are adapted from the Windows hostname, due to HP Insight Management agent tools. When running Linux, there doesn’t seem to be a option, or at least I couldn’t find one. While questioned a…

  • nnscfgmaker.sh: a nagios/nsclient++ cfg maker

    Dear all, We are in the process of changing the monitoring system on part of our network from Zenoss to Nagios. This is not a Zenoss vs. Nagios debate, as both products are awesome and do the things they are designed for very well. We (Christian and myself) use a combination of Cacti for bandwith…

  • 7days bashes on Linux, should stick to normal gossip

    7days recently published an article about Valerie Singleton who created a PC for the elderly. It was a well written, objective article until statements were made which wasn’t researched enough: The computer runs on Linux – an operating system of such bewildering complexity to anyone outside its inner circle that trained IT experts have been…