Archive for April, 2008

April 30, 2008

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Ok - so after messing with all these things on Fedora8 to try and get my NAS share to be usable over the httpd like it had been on Turbo and Windows before it - I decided to download and install an alternate HTTPD today.   For simplicity, I used the ...

April 29, 2008

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

In an attempt to try and resolve some issues on vmFedora8 with the httpd cutting off my webshare from serving files, I temporarily disabled iptables, ip6tables, avahi-daemon, and bluetooth.  However, it didnt help much, and I still get issue - even running curl from the command line on the same ...

April 28, 2008

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Finally got around to upgrading the memory on the vm580num1 tonite.  The goal was to go the max 3.5 Gb allowed in Standard Edition Win2k3 - and that meant adding 1Gb.  However, after realizing that it had to be added in groups of four per bank, I realized that my ...

April 23, 2008

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

After reading about Deki Wiki again in Linux Magazine this month, decided to do another trial. This time I found a virtual appliance I could work with. Read my December 7, 2007 post to see which I originally tried that didnt work. Documentation available here : http://vmDekiWiki.pluzzi.com:8083/Setup_of_DekiWiki_by_MindTouch In case for ...

April 22, 2008

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Tonite after other work with laptops, upgraded my vm380num1 from 1Gb RAM to 3GB RAM.  I removed the 1Gb (4 x 256Mb) that was present and added 3G new (2 x 1G, 2 x 512Mb).   That will allow me to fit more virtual machines at any given time, ...

April 19, 2008

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

With vm380num2 filling up root filesystem to 90%, I had adjusted the logrotate.d files to rotate my files at 7 day intervals, compress them, and keep only 5 copies. This should help reduce things, since the default was 365 days instead. So all /etc/logrotate.d/* files were updated, after ...

April 18, 2008

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Had yet another hang of Fedora 8.  Seems the first sign is big brother going purple, indicating no longer in contact.  Then almost 12 hours later, thats it - no recovery.  Cant login on the console, cant cleanly shutdown, cant do nuttin.  So I have to forcibly power it off.  ...

April 16, 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Had another hang on the vmFedora8 host today.  At this point, its happening at least monthly.  For a box that used to run flawlessly for about 8 years (excluding the early cpu failures), this is totally unacceptable.  For now, I think Im gonna take RoundCube down, and use that availability ...

April 9, 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Had another problem with ISPConfig DNS server today. It was really bugging me, but I finally found the issue. After making some updates today, suddenly things started failing all over the enterprise - my wiki wasnt found, blog couldnt find the database ("Error establishing a database connection"), and ...

April 7, 2008

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Well, my Fedora Core 8 instance crashed again - not likin that. This time I increased the DL580's total VMWare memory from 2184 Mb to the max 2304Mb on that system. Then I increased the vmFedora8 instance from 192Mb to the 256Mb max I could fit. Lets ...

April 6, 2008

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Updated my daily-driver laptop today - from a Belkin card to a Linksys card.  The laptop would lockup about once per day, and its actually quite annoying.  So I took the Linksys wpc300n card off the shelf today and am trying that - lets see if it helps at all.  ...

April 4, 2008

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Seems that my new Fedora Core 8 web server crashed (more like hung) on me at 3:00am today. I had to hard power it off using the vmware console, because I couldnt login - but its back on line now. Research showed that I was getting these errors : console-kit-daemon: ...