rhel5 via usb
So I’ve got my spiffy new HP DL360 G5 unboxed and pieced together and then I realize that they don’t come with CD/DVD drives in the low end package, something I should remember by now. That means the DVD of RHEL5.1 I’d burned yesterday to make sure I was ready, is pretty much useless. I […]
Time Management
Last week as my Valentine’s Day present from Kate, I had her get me a book called Time Management for System Administrators. Over the last few weeks I’ve been feeling very swamped and in order to make my day less hectic and better handle all the requests coming in I realized I needed to find […]
rhel5 packages
On a default install of RHEL5 (Redhat Enterprise Linux 5) the “Office/Productivity” and “Games and Entertainment” packages are enabled. While entirely understandable that they would be there in your standard install I just find it funny these two ideas that representing polar opposites are enabled. In all truth though this is an operating system generally […]
media wiki and servers
One thing I hate is having to do something over and over again and usually my laziness gets me into doing more work up front. This afternoons project was getting my server scan to post to our wiki. Cron’d to run once a week is a nmap scan of my servers (replace your ip set […]
Getting Hi-Rely to play with BackupExec
At first I was having some issues with the Hi-Rely eSata drive array swapping drives in and out. So I ended up reading the Symantec boards and found it to be a common issue. Perl of course came the rescue and a little bit of glue fixed it all up. Here’s the quick program I […]
ugh
Waking up at 5:30 to your cell phone beep, beep, beeping as messages coming in is not how we sysadmins like to start our week. Calling your hosting provider for the second time in less than a week to open a ticket saying routing is screwed up and nobody can get to your servers makes […]
deleting RHEL5 virtual guest
When deleting virtual machines in RHEL5 be sure to get the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/virt/*.xml file that relates to you machine as well as the /etc/xen/ file and the machines partition.
8806 paging
That damn paging on the Extreme 8806 switch is annoying, so to turn it off: disable clipaging This makes for much easier config reading.
svn mac
*Slaps Forehead* Using fink on OSX and installing svn ( fink install svn ) does not actually install svn, you need to install svn-client (fink install svn-client) in order to get the actual svn program. It makes sense in some ways but seems totally illogical in others.
RHEL5 and RoR
Big function of the day was reinstalling Ruby on Rails on another RHEL5 Xen server. My beta xen servers tanked this weekend as I was trying to reuse the G3s that were running the backup servers before. So fresh install on the Stage server and some time to document the whole process. My rpm list […]