I’m beginning to study OpenSuse openSUSE and I would like to commit myself on learning more about it.

Once in a while I’ll insert ‘How-to’ in this blog. With this, let me begin with yast2.

To do system update using command line, type in:

yast2 –update

I’ve been wanting to use Nagios for monitoring services that run in the network.

What services are these?

These are http, https httpd among others.

That’s why I installed Nagios first on a linux box running on Centos 5.3. Unfortunately, I had to reformat that box for something else.

So when I finally had a machine that can handle my needs for multiple virtual machines, I started playing around with more distributions.

One of them is OpenSuse 11.1.

And now, how to install Nagios eh?

Run terminal
type in:
zypper install nagios nagios-www

That’s all!

All you need to do is to check if apache is already installed. If not:
zypper install apache2

Then start nagios:
rcnagios start && insserv nagios

and start apache:
rcapache2 start

lastly, to access nagios via browser, we have to add user and password by:
htpasswd2 -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

You should be able to navigate nagios via http://yourhost/nagios

I’ve been doing some crazy stuffs (more of geeky stuffs) and seems like I’m losing my mind (exaggerating).

I just installed OpenSuse 11.1 on my home desktop and I think I messed up my XP. It was supposed to be a dual boot system and somewhere down the road, it didn’t happen. So right now, even though I am sleepy as a baby, I’m replacing OpenSuse with Ubuntu. Not sure if I’d be able to boot to XP tonight. Oh no! If not, I’d probably spend the entire weekend restoring its mbr.

Actually, I was supposed to test Mandriva 2009.1 but it wouldn’t initiate properly. It said, restart computer and nothing, I went straight back to grub. So, blame it to –

There you go, another misadventure from yours truly. Aaah, life is so amazing!