Archive for the 'Systems' Category

gnome 2.10 = best ever

- they rearranged some of the main menu bar items,more logical now
- you can mount volumes over ssh, that is just crazy. I was looking at thumbnails on my server at home through ssh. Insanely useful, although I can’t figure out how to text edit in read/write mode.
- video player
- ripper
- many other […]

Why aren’t you running gentoo?

emerge world updates every package you have to the latest version that’s available via source. Read on for a screendump of tastiness.

Solaris 9/04 and Veritas kernel panic.

Over a weekend I had the fun task of rebuilding two Sun Cluster hosts as standalone servers (Sun Cluster wasn’t great for us). I rebuilt one box and noticed after encapsulation that is complained about the ufs log on /. It was weird but didn’t cause any problems.
The 2nd identical box didn’t go […]

Useful Crontab Header

#minute (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day of the month (1-31),
#| | | month of the year (1-12),
#| […]

Software RAID5 is no good.

Set up a 2.6TB raid5 volume using A5200s and a 2×450mhz E220R. Shared it using samba3. Saw that network copies were horrible to it. This is the output of bonnie++ (a disk benchmark) and then I piped the results to `bon_csv2html’ program (included with the source distribution of bonnie).

You can see that […]

Sorta got owned.

/tmp is writable for the apache user. Someone exploited some bad code and uploaded an IRC bot on Aug 09. It’s not running now and we did a test to see if ./mech could be run. It didn’t start.
We fixed the PHPix code to check for system escapable characters. PHPix really […]

Gnome-terminal cpu utilization fixed

All of a sudden, gnome-terminal on Fedora core 2 was acting really strange. It was slow to open, slow to type, slow to close. Found a bug doc on redhat’s site although it was an older distro.
Eh, it’s worth a shot. Searched for the rpm on rpmfind.net.
Fedora ships with vte-0.11.10-5.1. […]

Using sed to manipulate ctd type strings from Solaris

This is a very specific example. I found this tricky because regular expressions in sed isn’t the same as in Perl.
I wanted to take output from the format command in Solaris and just get a list of disks on the system.
I ran format and redirected the output to a file called disks.txt
– file: disks.txt […]

More on samba, winbind on Solaris

Here’s how you can get the samba home directories to be created on the fly:

samba, winbind and solaris

This is a repost for formatting
Winbind-Solaris Documentation
Naag Mummaneni getnag at rediffmail.com
Thu May 2 11:10:54 GMT 2002
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Hi,
I just configured my Solaris box to logon to my Windows 2k Domain after working on it for three days.I am […]