Simon Krenger

Another commenter noted that there is a new version of the Tanuki Java Service Wrapper available. I hereby provide a build of the latest version of the wrapper, version 3.5.20.

As always, I don’t guarantee anything, so please note:

An anonymous commenter noticed that there was a new version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper available. So I hereby present the latest version of the wrapper. Merry christmas to all of you!

As always, I don’t guarantee anything, so please note:

Recently, Tanuki Software released a new version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper (version 3.5.16). I am happy to make a compiled version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper for Windows Server (64-bit) available to you.

As always, I don’t guarantee anything, so please note:

In a script I was working on, the tar command always reported the following error when I tried to extract an archive:

Cannot change ownership to uid 1000 , gid 1000: Permission denied

But I was executing the script as root! The reason for this error to occur turned out to be relatively simple. Hint: It has to do with CIFS.

I always like comments in my blog and someone nicely asked if I could provide a new build for the Tanuki Service Wrapper for Windows x64 (Community Edition). Sure I can! Find the download link below.

As always, I don’t guarantee anything, so please note:

With Debian 6, the Debian distribution made the jump to a dependency based boot sequence using LSB tags. So when you update your current Debian installation, you might encounter some problems when your scripts are not properly prepared. Such as the following message:

insserv: script vzreboot: service vzreboot already provided!

The full message reads like this:

Since I started out with Linux (so about six years ago), I always used the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to partition my tables. First it was just because it seemed easier to configure my harddisks with it (also, the installer usually provided a nice option to do so), but in the last few months I had the possibility to work more with LVM and got to know some nice features.

One thing I regularly have to do is to extend an existing logical volume on a server. This article focuses on extending a logical volume with the help of LVM.

For our courses in linear algebra, we are using the GNU Octave software for numerical computation. Since I am using a MacBook Air for university, I had to install Octave on Mac OS X. I simply followed the steps described here and successfully installed gnuplot and the Octave software package. But when I tried to plot something with Octave, I received the following error message:

Some services (such as MSSQL instances) include a dollar character ($) in their name. A few weeks ago, I had to add a service called “$02_JBoss Server” to our internal Nagios configuration. After searching through the Nagios documentation and FAQs, this is what I found:

For Nagios 3, add two backslashes and a second dollar (\$) symbol, like this: check_command check_command check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l MSSQL\$$INSTANCE

The above example actually has a small error in it, because there is no second backslash (even though it says so in the description)!

The correct way to check a service named “$02_JBoss Server” is to use a definition like this:

check_command           check_nrpe_args!CheckServiceState!ShowAll "\\$02_JBoss Server"

In the last few weeks I reworked our internal Nagios configuration and added a few checks to some of our internal servers. Since we do not have a dedicated SAN for our environment, we are using iSCSI as a low-cost storage solution. However, the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator implementation sometimes has trouble connecting to the iSCSI target. As a result, we had to monitor the iSCSI Initiator.

So here is our implementation of check_iscsi for the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. It uses the iscsicli utility provided together with the iSCSI Initiator and runs on the remote server. To use it, place the following batch file in the scripts/ folder of your NSClient++ installation.