Whee. I’m finally done with my trip report for work. It probably still needs polishing. I’m done though. I can’t bring myself to write anything else about it. It’s viewable at Travis Campbell’s LISA 2006 Trip Report. All my notes are also published on Google Docs. If anyone’s interested, I’ll post direct links to them,…
Or how I conquered out-of-band management with a box of serial and a power button. In the beginning When dinosaurs ruled the earth and small, mammalian critters scurried through the data center, the classic method of doing out-of-band management was via a crash cart and the laying of holy hands upon the ailing system. You’d…
I finally discovered why I couldn’t do cpu scaling on my Inspiron 6000. Apparently the default kernel for FC6 is an i586 kernel. It also doesn’t work with acpi-cpufreq. It’s broke. It no-workie. How do you make it work? Why, you install the i686 version of the kernel! Simple you say? Oh sure, you just…
(… or how to shed 25 thousand NFSOPS per second off your filer in 3 easy steps) So, we did a large upgrade of the environment over the weekend. It mostly went ok, despite some dramatic schedule slips. We still fit inside the overall window; it just didn’t end up as short as we wanted…
There was some discussion on #lopsa about doing backups of mysql using mysqldump and having to deal with extracting tables from large dump files. This is what I came up with. It’s worked well enough for extracting full tables from a RHEL4U1 mysql dump. #!/usr/bin/perl -wn # # extract a specific table from a mysql4.X…
So, I was reading through the May ’06 LOPSA Live transcript and came across a curious statement. [5:04p] chrisd: One of the things we can all relate to is the fact that, when everything goes right, nobody knows your name. [5:04p] chrisd: But when something breaks, everybody hounds you. [5:05p] chrisd: It’s a thankless job….