(sung to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song) Oh, this is a story ’bout a man named Joe. He sent me an OSD a couple years ago. An’ just the other day he said “You really should review…” Then he boxed up and sent me a Neuros Link too… OK, OK I know, […]
On an rpm based system, say CentOS, first make sure that the rpm-build package is installed. In your user account, not as root (bad form and all) make the following directories: mkdir -p ~/rpm mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/tmp And create an […]
Many of you know that I am strangely fascinated by what sorts of things people name their servers after. I, personally, use cryptids. I have machines named things like Sasquatch, Nessie, Yeti, Chupacabras and the like. Last night I had to do some work. One of the things I needed to take care of was […]
OK, I must be doing something wrong here, so if you are familiar with building rpms and can help me out, please do! I am trying to build an rpm which has (for the sake of discussion) a script file in it that I want to install. The first thing I did was to install […]
Just a quick update. If you do channel bonding on your ethernet, there apparently is really no good way to tell the speed of your interface. I tried mii-tool to see what the interface looked like, but I was horrified to see it reported 10bt half duplex on 2 bonded 100bt full duplex connections. After […]
There is a first tome for everything right? Well, today was my first time setting up ethernet channel bonding on RedHat; RHEL 5.3 x64 to be exact, but any RHEL 5 or CentOS 5 should be exactly the same. I found a great tutorial at http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel5/rhel5_administration/rhel5_s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html. I’ll repost the relevant bits here lest they become […]
Automating Linux and Unix System Administration I was asked to make sure I wrote some reviews of my recent review material this time 🙂 so here ’tis: This book, from APress, Nate Campi and Kirk Bauer is pretty good. This book gives decent information and goes through a lot of the thralls of basic systems […]
The posts today are flying from my fingers! I guess watching Kitchen Nightmares has somehow gotten my brain and fingers working in conjunction with one another… I mentioned that with my router troubles I had taken some pleasure in watching the people in my neighborhood connect to my unconnected router because it was unprotected and […]
I just mentioned how my internet connection went down in the middle of the night. Of course I don’t check my network when I get up in the morning until I get to work and try and get access to my email. At that point, if it’s something I can’t walk my wife through, I […]
I had this old Belkin wireless router at home, and I knew it was on the way out for some time now. The symptoms were it would occasionally just stop allowing any new connections. A couple weeks ago I purchased a nice little Netgear wireless router to replace it with, but as luck would have […]