I have never gotten around to looking into LVM but the ubuntu vmware images I stared with have an LVM volume and it has caused me nothing but problems The latest was just after I installed the new kernel and was not able to mount a non LVM volume: # mount /dev/sdb4 /vol/F mount: /dev/sdb4 [...]
I got bitten by this bug today: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/35746 It is fixed upstream but I still have to fixup the deb packages and upload them to the deb repository at work
I upgrade the kernel in one of my linux guests to 2.6.18.3 and when i tried to run vmware-config-tool.pl to recompile the vmxnet module I got an error that looks like: The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18.3) It seems that 2.6.18 defines the UTS_RELEASE somewhere [...]
I have installed vmware server and have moved my server to a virtual machine! it is all going quite well actually! will post more later!
I found a nice article explaining how to write a small bash daemon! very nice
I have always have setup the MTA on my local server to do local delivereies only (it only listens on 127.0.0.1)! I have never realy needed to send mail from it. I was browseing debian packages when I found esmpt; a relay only MTA. I thought that it would be perfect for me. It is [...]
I am connected to the super highway via a speedtouch 510 ADSL modem. I used the DNS and DCHP features of the modem. The problem? well the modem doesn’t support MX type DNS queries. so I can’t send email from by server becuase I can never look up the recipents mail server Now bind9 may [...]
I found this cool t-shirt with an even cooler piece of obfuscated perl code in the shape of the O’Reilly camel! A great piece of code.
Adam Leventhal (one of the DTrace developers) was in volved in making DTrace work for BrandZ. He’s written a blog entry on using this combination to have a look at the “top issue” (why is it that whenever you run top, the top process is top?). The blog entry shows how using DTrace and OpenSolaris [...]
vsound allows you to record the output of any standard OSS program (one that uses /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or recompile the program. It uses the same idea as the esddsp wrapper from the Enlightened Sound Daemon (in fact, vsound is based on esddsp). That is, it preloads a library that intercepts [...]