It is snowing in much of the north east of USA today. A few flakes were coming down by the time I arrived home at about 9PM on Sunday night, but there was no accumulation. By the time I went to bed at about midnight, the cars next to mine were covered but the Subaru […]
Welcome to unemployment. What was ironic about today: At lunch, I dropped off a cheque to the car dealer for the Subaru Outback XT I’d picked up two Fridays ago. At 2pm, I was fired. DOH! Bummer. My resume. Thank you.
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There are a few random tasks (in addition to my big list of things to do) that I’d like to tackle over the weekend: Start regression testing Bacula on 7.x – Done Send out a BSDCan letter of invitation – Done Complete that application for security clearance – Hmm, partly done…. just need the vehicle
Bacula 3.0 is getting much closer to release. There are some amazing new features coming soon to a packaging system near you. I last wrote about these features in October. I am bringing them up again because I just submitted a patch for sysutils/bacula-server-devel. Yes, now you can easily start playing with all those new
Today I arrived home from a 12 day business trip. While I was away my home network lost connectivity. When I arrived home, I started to investigate. dhclient was running. No IP address. Running it found no DHCP servers. The MoCA light was flashing red on the ONT. I called Verizon. We rebooted the OTN
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Taken from the original with completed items removed. I have several items I would like to complete in the short term. Writing them down may help me commit to doing them. To Do allow new server to slave DNS move IRC proxy to another server put cover back on BAST get SSL working with EFNET
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For the first time since I put it on in May 2001, I am without the custom bracelet Bronwyn made for me just before I left New Zealand. It is not lost, merely left behind. I’ll retrieve it next weekend, and it’s been put aside for me. But for the next 6 days, it will
I run Bacula. I have coded for Bacula. Now I’m writing about Bacula again. Bacula is by far and away the best open source program for managing network-based backups. In this article, I will show you how I migrated a bunch of jobs from a disk Volume to a tape Volume. However, the approach I
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I’m sick of dealing with dynamic IP issues. My broadband connection at home has a dynamic IP address. I can always find out what my home IP address is. I’m using dns/noip to manage a hostname which points to home. I can always ssh home via the hostname. The problems arise when I try to
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When my IP address at home changes, what do I need to do? I have servers out there on the Internet, which need to know the new IP address. I need to ssh to each of them and update: /etc/pf.conf – the IP address of my home gateway /etc/hosts /usr/local/etc/nrpe.conf restart stunnel It’s kind of
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