Take a default Ubuntu/Debian install using the Mutt mail client (MUA) then switch to exim4.
You get the most monumental FAIL - your bcc addresses will be included in the message to everyone else. Dangerous and embarrassing!
Happily there is a fix, but it seems insane that you should even need it. Read on for details.
One of the annoyances we find with using Munin is writing plugins. It’s not hard or complicated per se (or any worse than with any of the other monitoring tools). However it often seems confusing and fiddly to our little brains. We’ll admit we aren’t Munin Experts, nor want to be.
The implementation details we do know tend to leak out of our heads over time as, although we use the reports frequently, we typically don’t fiddle with the guts of Munin very often. Which is perhaps a good thing.
Yet from time to time we need to tinker and it is mostly with the plugins.
This is a “quick start” to installing munin on a set of Debian / Ubuntu based servers.It covers just enough to get you started … check the munin documentation for additional things you might want to do.
We wanted a Jabber server running on our own debian / ubuntu based machines and we wanted it to “Just Work”.Installation is easy with Apt, but then you need deal with configuration and this we found a little fiddly and confusing. We found the existing documentation did not suit our requirements, so we’re outlining what we did in the hope it might help someone else.Comments or feedback are most welcome - details at the end of this post.
A good step by step guide to installing Munin on Debian based machines, like Ubuntu.The comments also contain some interesting discussion about the pros & cons of Munin vs Nagios, Zabbix etc. as well as some of the strengths and weakness of Munin itself.</end>
