After today’s little hiccup, I noticed the random image in the top right of my page throwing an error message, something about ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE. A little digging about, I stumbled across an error in the daemon.log file…

mysqld[4478]: 100112 20:31:04 [ERROR] Got error 127 when reading table g2_ItemAttributesMap

Fortunately, most of the times, this is relatively easy [...]

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Running on from today’s outage, I’ve put a few more safety measures in place. I’ve always had old faithful Nagios watching over my servers, however sometimes a little more is needed. Introducing Monit into the picture…

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As a follow up to the previous Tinkering with Temperature post, here is more on what I did, and how.

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I’ve been meaning to get some proper stats setup for my mail server, but until then, I’ve been mostly content with reading the LogWatch reports from my server. It has been dutifully analyzing my log files, and giving me all kinds of useful data, such as the mail stats from Saturday, 18th July…

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I’m currently working on rebuilding a server on a project, and went to hit the tab key to auto-complete, when I was presented a delightful error… $ vim RE-sh: <( compgen -d — ‘RE’ ): No such file or directory -sh: <( eval compgen -f -X ‘*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|rpm|gif|GIF|jp?(e)g|JP?(E)G|mp3|MP3|mp?(e)g|MPG|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|ogg|OGG|class|CLASS)’ [...]

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Today I’ve decided to finally shut down a trusty server.  It’s been the office firewall for 4+ years, happily chugging away on an old HP desktop, running Gentoo linux. $ uptime 08:44:48 up 267 days, 17:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It’s [...]

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I love one-liners to make my life easier.  Today I decided to clean up a directory full of CSV files, and compress them down.  After all, a 2MB CSV file can be reduced quite substantially, and I had 300 of them.

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I’ve always been in favor of removing the standard Sendmail install on most Linux boxes, in favor of Postfix. I’ve found it easier to use, and easier to configure. Having a simple configuration file that doesn’t need compiling is always helpful too. However, in some cases, you really don’t like to touch [...]

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How do you turn a 12 (or more) hour job into 40 minutes? Script it…

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On Sunday I wrote up a “brief” little record of my upgrade nightmare. Today, I got an email from Bill reporting his anti-spam comment plugin was broken. So I decided to check in on it. I had assumed there was an issue with the PHP build I had created after the installs. [...]

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