Noodles’ Blog

For some reason the iPhone 3G will not connect to this wireless router. There has been talk that this is fixed in the latest firmware but as of writing this it is not fixed in the latest AU/NZ firmware (1.00.23).

I found a temporary solution for the problem though. If you limit your router to 802.11B only then the iPhone will connect without a problem. As soon as it’s changed to mixed network or 802.11G only then it will fail to connect.

Update: I’ve found that the AU firmware from the AU linksys site works fine on the NZ WAG54Gv3. I’m using 1.00.46 and the iPhone 3G now connects under 802.11G without a problem.

I managed to figure out how to monitor Apache with Big Brother and LARRD. As it's not very well documented I thought I'd share it with everyone.

First set your apache server to display status in the apache httpd.conf:

Setting extended status to On does slow down the server a little bit, but it's usually not noticeable. Remember to limit access to the status page to just the IP where your Big Brother server is monitoring from.

Add apache to @DATALIST in larrd-config.pl

Then in your apache-larrd.pl (under the larrd directory) you'll need to hardcode the servers you want to monitor.

The first part of the host_h array is to identify which server to attach the RRD file with. In this instance I'm monitoring a server called server01 and the website I have setup with the server-status page is http://www.youresite.com/server-status?auto. If your host is a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) then you can omit the full url and just have /server-status?auto and Big Brother will work out the URL.

With any luck you'll have 4 new graphs on your trends/LARRD page.

I ran into some problems with MySQL on RHEL 4 when SELinux was enabled. When starting MySQL it would come up with this:

Starting MySQL...................................[FAILED]

And the following in /var/log/messages:

All fixed though thanks to this page: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12676