Setting up Proxmox Email Alerts

Introduction You may not have known, but Proxmox does send out emails every so often. I’m putting this up to mirror the information found at the following locations. https://crepaldi.us/2021/03/07/configuring-e-mail-alerts-on-your-proxmox/ 1. Install the authentication library 2. Choose an SMTP Provider You can use a Gmail account and App Passwords, App Passwords is available when you enable … Read more

NetData Installation or Upgrade – Permission Denied Temp Directory not Executable

You might have run into the following issue at some point when trying to install or upgrade Netdata. It’s usually related to your /tmp folder is mounted without execution permission and doesn’t allow execution of programs from this location. A simple work around is to set the $TMPDIR location in your shell to a place … Read more

Xen Ubuntu 18 Guest Creation Using xen-create-image (bionic template and netplan fix included)

So I was having issues with deploying Ubuntu 18 guests on a Xen hypervisor. It originally started with a template for bionic not existing. This is easily fixed with a couple of commands to copy the karmic.d template to bionic.d template. However, once your host boots up. You’re now faced with a network issue as … Read more

Tips and Tricks for Building Ubuntu Packages and Compiling

If you’re about to build packages apt-get install build-essential If you can’t find debbuild apt-get install devscripts You receive the following error dh: unable to load addon quilt: Can’t locate Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/quilt.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Debian::Debhelper::Sequence::quilt module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.18.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 13) … Read more

CrashPlan Error “Cound not Initialize class com.code42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager”

I had a host that wasn’t backing up at all and found the following error message within the CrashPlan engine_error.log located in /usr/local/crashplan/log Exception in thread “W87903837_ScanWrkr” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.code42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager at com.code42.jna.inotify.JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.<init>(JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.java:21) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.initFileWatcherDriver(BackupSetsManager.java:393) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.startScheduledFileQueue(BackupSetsManager.java:331) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.access$1600(BackupSetsManager.java:66) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager$ScanWorker.delay(BackupSetsManager.java:1073) at com.code42.utils.AWorker.run(AWorker.java:158) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) From what I could tell it was related … Read more

Ubuntu PHP5-FPM NGINX

So I’ve been starting to deploy nginx on more systems, and working with php5-fpm and have had some great success. However a few issues have come to light, and it was hard to find information about these issues online. Lots of Google digging later I’ve found quite a bit about nginx and PHP5-FPM. Configuring nginx … Read more