ODIN News

November 18, 2008 - Drupal Tank Meeting

The first Drupal Tank is taking place tonight.  It should be awesome.  I'll follow up with notes and any thing else we promised and discussed.

Nagios 'check_by_ssh' error "Remote command execution failed: stdin: is not a tty"

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.

Ruby errors on CentOS 5.2

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.

Drupal Groups (OG) - List Groups on Nodes

It took a few hours to find but after digging through some foreign web sites I finally found the code that I needed to add the parent group names to a node.

Internet Explorer - Cross Browser Help

Developing websites that display consistent with all browsers is hard enough, then Internet Explorer actually starts getting updated and every update elements display differently.  Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to finally see something happen with IE, but it makes web development more time consuming and that raises web development costs.

Troubles with Zaptel, CentOS 5.2, Xen

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...