Jerry Norton's blog

We run Nagios to monitor our servers and services. While I was setting up a new server to be monitored via 'check_by_ssh', I kept getting an error "Remote command execution failed: stdin: is not a tty". I could ssh into the server just fine with the nagios user and execute the remote command manually, however, it would not run using the 'check_by_ssh' command. I finanly found my problem.

I recently needed to setup a Ruby on Rails server for one of our developers. Since he's usually setup his own Ruby environments in the past, this was a new procedure for me. Errors and troubles always come with learning something new and I was getting a "ruby no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)" message when installing rubygems. I also encountered a "no such file to load -- openssl" when trying to start the rails server.

I've been doing a lot of work with Asterisk lately and have been having and issues A)getting the zaptel 1.4 module to compile and B) Zaptel module causing a CentOS 5.2 Xen server to crash on load.  After much searching and deciphering, here's what I had to do to get things working...

You get what you pay for and voice-over-IP is a cheap alternative.  We've decided to migrate back to plain old telephone.  Here's why...