Two days ago, calling in sick for the day, I’ve noticed my home Internet connection dropped few times. Not only that, I’ve noticed that while it dropped, my router, a Linux machine, was inaccessible. A quick verification showed that the machine just rebooted itself once a while, while other machines, located on the same power…
Here are some pictures of the server upgrade. Old server: P2 300MHz, with 256MB RAM: Old server, in its old location New server: Xion 3GHz+HT+EMT64, with 1GB RAM. Nice: Dell PowerEdge 1800. Nice LEDs 🙂 The whole server room during the upgrade. Notice the 3com router/switch! You’ll be able to recognise it by its antenas…
Tom Adelstein has posted an article about why people use Linux. Although I tend to stick to the tech stuff, it was rather interesting. One could never imaging MS bashing wasn’t one of the major reasons… 🙂 I have had fun with Cacti, in the meanwhile. It is one mean graphing machine. Details, as well…
It was a tough one. A real tough one. However, finally, our little Dell Server (described below) PE1800, is up and running. Replacing it’s old 5 years old predecessor. It was a living hell, but it allowed me vast experiments with wider range of technologies, better combined solutions, and newer, more mature approach to system…
When I’ve installed my lab’s SunCluster, only later did I install Veritas Volume Manager, aka VxVM. I believed they wouldn’t need it at my development dept., but I proved to be wrong. Only short while afterwards I’ve been asked to add VxVM to the configuration. I’ve added it, and installed it using Veritas install scripts….
My new Linux server-to-be will require some remote monitoring and process keepalive going there. It’s that I’ve noticed nscd (which is required, when dealing with hundreds of LDAP based accounts) tends to die once a while. I’ve also made a mistake once, and managed to kill all SSH daemons, including the running ones. I am…
