Archive for March, 2007

Munin and Bind9 on Gentoo

I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored. I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit. My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with my [...]

Domains for administrators

Lets say you have a dozen of servers. Lets say you connect to them very often to do some work. You have a very nice and descriptive domain for all your servers. Domain is organized nicely organized. Now you wish to connect to one of the servers. You are typing ssh mylovelyserver.somesubdomain.mylovelylongdomain.tld How much do [...]

Back from Tenerife

I am back and I am red! Check it out 

Off for short vacation

It is time to get some nice break on Tenerife Island , it is much needed after working my ass off. Gonna see my parents there. No computers, no stress, just one simple GPS receiver and my Nokia 770 with preloaded maps

HP Media Vault gets new disk

Yesterday I have ordered a WD3200YS disk, it’s a Western Digital RE ( RAID Edition ) 320GB disk. Today arrived. Disk is now sitting in my MV and rebuilding volume on to it. So in 7h and 30m I will have a fully working RAID 1. I can already hear my data whisper “yes, finally [...]