Month: August 2012

Why Nagios plugin check_dig fails on one host and works on another

It turns out that language/locale settings affects the output of the check_dig Nagios plugin. On one Nagios server it worked as supposed, but on another it threw; DNS WARNING – 0,004 seconds response time (dig returned an error status) Performance Data: time=0,003554s;;;0,000000 Running the plugin by hand on the server which worked: DNS OK – … [Read more…]

Installing Groovy and Grails on OSX

Download the latest versions of Groovy & Grails. Currently that is groovy-binary-2.0.1.zip and grails-2.1.0.zip. Let’s unzip these archives into /usr/share; cd /usr/share sudo unzip ~/Downloads/groovy-binary-2.0.1.zip sudo unzip ~/Downloads/grails-2.1.0.zip Next we setup environments variables, which points to these paths. Adding these to our .bash_profile, makes our system environment read it. cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile # … [Read more…]