While testing munin 2.x on debian, I was unable to uninstall it, Removing munin-node … [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. … failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript munin-node, action “stop” failed. dpkg: error processing munin-node (–purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 6 [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. …
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Varnish Nagios Check
**Update: 2 July 2014. Updated to new version 1.1 I have written a check for nagios/icinga to check the varnish backend health. You can get the latest version from github . The version at the time of posting at the bottom of this message. The defaults are RHEL defaults and
Continue readingSkype Auto Popup with Cinnamon
** Update 2 July 2014 ** May be outdated, see comments Since my migration to Linux Mint 12 I noticed a very annoying issue. When receiving a new message Skype pops up to the forefront over the current window. Needless to say it’s extremely annoying! Luckily a quick google shows
Continue readingMigrating from Ubuntu 11.10 to Linux Mint
Last night I decided to apply the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade because the update notification was getting annoying and boy it turned out to be a pain. The previous upgrade introduced Unity which if you just have a google search look at the top recommendations should explain it all. “Unity Sucks”
Continue readingTwitter Mass Unfollow With Python
I decided to revive my old twitter account and wanted to unfollow all my old friends list, the majority were gained from an auto-follow script a few years ago and are nothing but spam. Given I want to start using twitter I only want to follow people I am
Continue readingERROR: Module backupdriver is in use
While updating several of our remaining systems from r1soft CDP 2 to CDP 3 we’ve been getting the following error, ERROR: Module backupdriver is in use r1soft-uninstall-buagent -R This uninstaller will remove the following.. File /etc/init.d/buagent File /usr/bin/buagent File /var/lock/buagent.lock File /var/run/buagent.pid File /usr/bin/r1key File /usr/bin/r1soft-cki File /usr/bin/r1soft-report.sh File /usr/bin/r1soft-uninstall-buagent
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