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While trying to install Ubuntu 10.04.1 & 10.04.2 with Software RAID using drives over 1TB, that have already had an install on them once, i keep running into problems. First the partitioner kept putting 1M of free space at the … Continue reading →

Had some timeout errors on a webfarm server that had been running steady with an uptime of several months. All of a sudden it couldn’t write to some directories, couldn’t reboot, I figured the HD failed. But the HD tested … Continue reading →

Was working with an old CentOS 5.2 software raid and trying to replace the 70GB drives with 500GB drives. Had quite a bit of difficulty with grub not working when trying to boot on one drive or the other after … Continue reading →

Experienced a power failure and the Raid1 ubuntu system I’d set up with soft raid didn’t come back up; the boot screen had a message that /dev/md0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. mountall: fsck / [466] terminated with status 4 … Continue reading →

I installed vmware on an ubuntu server and had some trouble connecting to the virtual machine through firefox. Cannot access virtual machine console I read that the latest firefox does not work with VMware, so I downgraded from firefox 3.6.X … Continue reading →

OK so I am working with Ubuntu servers (no, I haven’t abandoned CentOS, just broadening the horizons). Anyway, Ubuntu is different in that, rather than creating a root password during the install, it has you create a user account with … Continue reading →

Had this old perl program to set and log cookies and id’s but now we needed it to run from wordpress. Figuring out how to set custom cookies (before the html begins) from inside thesis / wordpress was harder than … Continue reading →

when installing php-5.3.5 on AMD64, make install on php gives this: cannot access `/usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so’: No such file or directory Apparently a lot of things can cause this problem. Finally I tried an earlier version of PHP (5.3.3) from another AMD64 … Continue reading →

I needed to set up Emails to go to the SMS account of a customer on Credo Mobile. Most carriers publish this information, but I could not find it anywhere for Credo. So I called them up. Sorry, they can’t … Continue reading →

We use a perl script to monitor our webservers, and if any are down, send an email (SMS) to the right people. With thanks and compliments to these guys Here is the perl script, monitor-website.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Std; # Define … Continue reading →