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Ian Darwin on UNIX/Linux …

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This is my UNIX site, but it’s mostly about OpenBSD, which I consider to be among the most highly evolved species of UNIX/Linux (itself the best of all commercially-available general purpose Operating Systems), particularly with regard to security and reliability.

Getting Started: Download and …

Nagios for monitoring …

For some time I've been using Nagios to monitor my own server and that of some clients. Nagios has shown itself to be very useful, and it's really not that hard to configure, with a bit of practice. And it is very flexible.

One of the machines I monitor has a batch of virtual web servers. Nagios' …