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Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent 12 on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted Thu, 08/14/2008 - 9:39am by crmanski

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

Posted Thu, 05/22/2008 - 8:07am by crmanski

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

Posted Fri, 03/14/2008 - 9:07pm by crmanski

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

Posted Thu, 08/02/2007 - 6:02pm by crmanski

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)

Testing the Linksys WAP200

Posted Tue, 05/22/2007 - 4:31pm by crmanski

Today I tried out a couple of the newer Linksys WAP200 wireless access points. These are a little more pricey than the older WAP54G that I've used. They include a lot more features such as: VLANs, Multiple SSIDs, expanded logging features, etc. The configuration is pretty much straight forward. The IP configure options have two more boxes for DNS servers configuration. These were not present in the older models. So thinking nothing too much it I filled those in, setup the security and some of the other options, made a backup and put them into the field.