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Jul
12
comment shutdown linux server right after power outage while on UPS
I agree that apcupsd would be better, but if you end up using monit maybe you could change the 2nd line to "if failed icmp type echo with timeout 30 seconds for 4 cycles" so if 4 pings are missing the shutdown happens
Jul
4
comment Hot-swap drive got new name, can I change it on-the-fly?
for md arrays mdadm scans all the disks (as defined in /etc/mdadm.conf) so it doesn't matter where are they, because it writes an ID into the header of the disk so it can reassemble the arrays.
Jun
23
comment v2v of RHEL5 box - issues with retaining MAC address
a longshot, but what if you try setting ethernetX.checkMACAddress = “false” ? did vmware ask you when you've started the vm if you've copied it or moved?
Jun
23
comment Server hang - data loss on reboot, post mortem analysis
Something like this happened to me because of a bug in the firmware of my raid controller. Did you check the servers logs (in the bios) or the controllers logs?
Jun
23
comment Transfer files using ssh
what about using filezilla with sftp?
Jun
9
comment Server Memory Usage VERY high on new linux dedi box - How to find the issue?
ps -eo pmem,pcpu,rss,vsize,args | sort -k 1 -r | head
Jun
1
comment Whats the best way to update Ubuntu 9.04?
what if you get the update-manager-core deb file from another version (for example from 10.04)? url: packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/update-manager-core
May
20
comment load balancing using dhcpd
hehe I knew it was possible, see: blog.jeffreyforman.net/2011/02/28/…
May
10
comment Need advice regarding Hard Disk Cloning
I don't think it really matters. It's easier if you just copy everything, for example using sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb but make sure you also copy grub or install it on the new disk
Apr
11
comment Linux, Install [deleted] mod_rewrite apache module
You are right, my mistake. It's part of apache2
Mar
8
comment Device discovery - what tool can I use?
zenmap is a nice gui for nmap
Jan
18
comment ERROR when restoring MySQL data dump
what's line 14165?
Dec
6
comment How to administer files on a remote ubuntu machine?
you would need to enable the root account and enable root logins for ssh. I it's a development system it would probably be ok, for better security I would suggest installing something like denyhosts and changing the ssh port to something other than 22
Dec
6
comment MySQL not properly installed
what if you try: aptitude reinstall mysql-server mysql-server-5.1
Nov
15
comment character encoding: UTF8 vs iso-8859-1
I've had the same problem and the reason was the app was sending "wrong" headers - i.e. iso-8859-1 encoding
Nov
5
comment Is there a way to clone an existing VM on an ESXi server without having to re-import it?
For me it also always worked by just copying the files. Plan B would be to copy only disk/vmdk files and create a new vm and later attach vmdks.
Oct
5
comment Configure MySQL server IP
can you telnet to it (telnet 192.168.x.x 3306)?
Oct
4
comment ntp service on linux, not running after reboot
If this is a virtual machine the same can happen and if it goes off by more than 1000 seconds it won't sync anymore.
Sep
29
comment Shell script to keep backups for last 3 days, last 3 weeks and last 3 months
hmm...I've updated my post with Dennis Willimasons corrections, but I think you will be better off using a utility that already does what you want. Maybe sbackup or rsnapshot?
Jul
7
comment slow software raid
Thanks! Using these settings I get at least 10% more speed while doing sequential reads.