I help maintain a site that runs WordPress, but we don’t have ftp access to the box it runs on. So it makes doing WordPress upgrades a little difficult sometimes. I came across a site that had a little work around for this though. All you need to do is add “define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);” to the end…
At work there are several of us that have wanted to be able to setup a lab environment for testing powershell scripts, configuration changes, training, and other things. The way we’ve done it in the past is to run one or two VM’s on our desktops. The problem with that is you usually can’t have…
1. Go to: https://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/268-installing-the-xi-linux-agent 2. Download the latest linux nrpe agent. 3. Extract the agent using: tar xzvf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 4. CD to linux-nrpe-agent 5. Type: ./fullinstall 6. Provide the IP address of your Nagios server. 7. Add the server to Nagios.
So at work we have a couple of computer setup in a public area that can be used to access our web site. In the past we have used Windows XP and locked them down. However, with support for XP coming to an end we needed to come up with another solution. I wanted to branch out a bit (at least for me) and come up with a kiosk setup that used a Linux distro . I came across some really good options, but one of the requirements was that the browser should be Google Chrome. Most of the sites I came across used FireFox as the browser. I spent a few weeks searching and testing and finally came up with a working solution that uses Ubuntu 14.0.4LTS Desktop (x64), Openbox, and Google Chrome. I used information from the web sites listed below to come up with this working kiosk.…
Here is a link to a document I put together for preparing a USB drive for installing Windows 7 or 8. PDF Document
