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About Me

Hello! Welcome to my website. As Computer Network Manager of Berlin High School it is basically my responsibility to try to assist the staff, students with the use of technology in their everyday lives. This site is a documentation of my ongoing work experiences and a way for me to help others outside the BHS community as well. This site is always in the state of "Heavy Construction" and will continue to be this way until I find more time in my busy schedule to do something about it...

Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent 12 on Ubuntu Hardy

In a previous post I mentioned how I was able to get backupexec agent running on Ubuntu Feisty. Recently, we updated to verion 12 and I just wanted to share that this method worked well for me in Ubuntu Hardy also. It was a little easier because the debs that were converted with alien just updated the previously installed packages smoothly.

 

Bind9 Error on Debian Etch

For those of you running a bind dns server you may have come across this error only when trying to restart your DNS server

 Reloading domain name service... : bindrndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
 

This has to do with the configuration of (or lack there of) in /etc/bind/rndc.conf

Gubble - An Interesting Parental Control Firefox Extension

I just came across this very neat little Firefox extension that provides parental controls for the Firefox web browser. It is called Gubble (www.gubble.com). Once it is installed and you restart Firefox it will prompt you to setup a parental account and then child accounts. The extension takes control of the browser and works on a whitelist philosophy. Everything is blocked except what you allow for the child accounts.

Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent 11d on Ubuntu Feisty

I found a very helpful article on installing the Remote Agent for Linux on Ubuntu here: http://www.ubuntux.org/ubuntu-veritas-backup-exec-and-you

Below are the steps I used on Feisty Server. Note: Change to root first: sudo su (as the admin account)

1. I registered my serial numbers and downloaded the latest .tar.gz for all agents. (called BEWS_11D.7170_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-NT4_AGENTS.2.tar.gz at this time.)

2. Changed the port that webmin was running on (if you have it installed)