As part of my job, as an Infrastructure and Mr. Fix-it in my company, where it comes to Unix, Windows, HA-Clusters, Storages, etc, I often get to encounter some unpredictable situations. During the last two days I’ve had to setup a Compaq Proliant ML360G2 with the following configuration (to simulate customer’s environment): RHEL AS 3…
I’ve been working, on and off, on an update to my Linux kernel, for the last few weeks. I’ve tried my best with 2.6.12.1 to 2.6.12.5, and although it was compiled correctly, it failed to boot. I don’t know why, but this same problem occurred on my desktop PC as well. Yesterday, finally, I was…
Well, during the weekend, I got rather lazy. I haven’t done half the things I’ve had in mind, so I tried to spend some of today for the sake of these things. Nada. Wasted my time on work, and work, and then some more work, I’ve done nothing useful whatsoever. During night time, I’ve decided…
I’ve had the "pleasure" of reconfiguring Linux Vservers (virtual servers, kernel level, etc), to add additional IP addresses to each. Although this setup is old, and I wouldn’t dare change it to anything else (not on a production server, running 3 vservers, each running 400 hosted sites, etc), so I’ve checked the scripts, and so…
I’ve been to our own little “August Penguin” just few days ago, and it wasn’t too good. I avoided the lectures (who needs secure rsync?!?), but sat and talked with friends about all kinda stuff. One of the advantages of such an event is that you get to meet lots of your linux-related friends, and…
It was long, it was tiresome, and it was nasty. We’ve been to a hosting farm, in one of Israel’s largest ISPs,where their (and our) customer needed to relocate servers, and change his server’s IPs, settings, etc. I don’t know why, but we’ve tried to come as prepared as possible. One of the things…
