Posts tagged 'Ubuntu'

Or, everything you wanted to know about setting up Ganglia, but couldn't grok from the official documentation - part 2.

In this post I'll cover:

• What purposes the different Ganglia utilities serve, and how they fit together.
• How to set up a minimal configuration, from apt-get install through to configuring Apache …

Or, everything you wanted to know about setting up Ganglia, but couldn't grok from the official documentation - part 1.

I recently set up Ganglia monitoring on couple of new machines I'm looking after. While I've used Ganglia before, I wanted to do some slightly non-standard things this time around. This …

There seems to be very little information on the web about setting up disk quotas, presumably because it's perceived as being trivial. However, it's nice to have this confirmed or refuted before you dive in, so here are my notes.

First off:

$ sudo apt-get install quota quotatool

Now edit /etc …

Just testing a shiny new Dell Precision M4700, which is great... except the trackpad isn't recognized in Xubuntu 12.04, resulting in no multi-touch - it's amazing how clunky resorting to scroll bars seems now. Anyway, it turns out Dell are not thoroughly supporting the 'Alps' trackpads used on their latest …