In a sea of inadequete cfengine examples, one stands out: http://www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Cfengine. I’m in the early stages of developing an administration strategy for a jail server I’m setting up. It will run regression tests for Bacula. I’ve already found ezjail, which will help me create the jails. What I needed was tool for administering the jails. […]
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This post is unfinished. This is the old box: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Sep 19 11:34:09 EDT 2007 dan@polo.unixathome.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POLO WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Timecounter “i8254” frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2806.38-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = “GenuineIntel” Id
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Last Friday I went to the local Social Security office to apply for a Social Security card. I already had a number, but the card never got to me. The drive there was longer than the time in the office. I expected a large office, big line up, and to spend an hour or so
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After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy action on the inside, the BSD Certification Group‘s BSD Associate (BSDA) certification is now available! The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional, community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.
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A very key point in this article. Product vs project. Read: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/120-Postgres-is-not-for-sale.html
MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale. Read More »
I’m now moved in. 10 days already. Of the things from my previous post that I needed to do, the following remain: apply for a PA drivers license register the car and get PA tags I got to IKEA today and managed to buy stuff that I’ve need since my relocation in May. Lack of
I am no longer homeless. I found a place to move into. But not until the weekend before Christmas. It looks like I’ll be able to move in on the 23rd. That’s a Sunday. At least I no longer have to search for a place. By the time this is over, I’ll have spent 32
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At the new job, I have a new desktop. It came with XP pro installed on it. To quote a coworker, I need the following: an email client an ssh client a web browser an office suite a CVS client In short, I an allowed to use whatever OS I’m comfortable with and can support.
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The truck is gone. So is the trailer. In it’s place is a storage locker, filled with all my earthly belongings. I have a few things in my hotel room, but the bikes, the computers, the bed, etc, are all across the road in a lock-up. Jan Wieck helped me unload the truck. That took
I left South Carolina at about 5:30 this morning. I arrived in Willow Grove, PA at about 3:30. I’m tired. Now if only I could sleep in my own bed.