Technology Errors

Backtrack Linux Configure Error: No package check found

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While compiling some earlier versions of bluez, which provides support for core bluetooth layers and protocols, I ran into a minor error. The error complained about no check being available. Read below to see the initial error when running ./configure and how to install the check package to resolve the errors. Installing the check package will fix this problem likely on any platform but for sure on Ubuntu 10.04 since Backtrack Linux is currently built on that platform.

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Use Nagios To Check Process Size And Provide Alerts Based on Process Megabyte Size

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Nagios is an awesome open source application that provides a way to monitor pretty much anything that you can think of on your network. There are tons of plugins written for Nagios that will monitor anything from PostgreSQL database size to the number of users logged into a server. Today I needed to start monitoring the size of a Ruby process that has been growing out of hand so the below is what I came up with being the best solution. Follow the directions below to deploy a Perl script that will use SNMP to retrieve Linux server process size.