easy ubuntu nfs sharing

this is a very quick walk through on setting up ubuntu (tested with Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS \n \l as a straight forward nfs share on sparc platform (even though its identical on x86). this entry assumes you want to share with everyone on your network. update your apt-get first sudo apt-get update install nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server … Read More

simple rsync script

i wrote this little quick script to backup my script folder from all my workstations and keep them in one repository (i know that there are better and probably easier ways of doing this). edit 26-apr-2008 changed some checks in script #!/bin/bash # # rsync script for backups # script assumes that you have all … Read More

too many disks ??

lgarion@uranus $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 72G 23G 46G 33% / udev 10M 208K 9.8M 3% /dev /dev/sda1 99M 5.3M 89M 6% /boot none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm pluto:/mnt/disk1/All 909G 474G 390G 55% /media/pluto mars:/media/share 184G 93M 174G 1% /media/mars mercury:/mnt/sdb1 68G 182M 64G 1% /media/mercury mercury:/var/www 67G … Read More

gentoo + thinkpad x61 = difficult wifi

easy kernel hacks to make the intel 4965AGN work: kernel selections: Networking Wireless * Improved wireless configuration API [*] nl80211 new netlink interface support * Wireless extensions <*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) Device Drivers [*] Network device support Wireless LAN Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) [*] Intel Wireless WiFi Link Drivers [*] Enable full … Read More

quick & dirty mysql replication

***** i am not a mysql admin, this info was picked up with info from all over the internet. ***** master: ## hop on the master server on our master server, we are going to add our replicant user (slave): mysql> grant replication slave on *.* to ‘slave’@’%’ identified by ‘password’; ## remember to set … Read More

Motorola M810 fun – pt 2

#### warning: this is going to be a semi-long post #### first off, some drive specs: 187-Bug>IOI I/O Inquiry Status: CLUN DLUN CNTRL-TYPE DADDR DTYPE RM Inquiry-Data 0 10 VME187 1 $00 N SEAGATE ST39173N 6244 0 40 VME187 4 $01 Y ARCHIVE VIPER TDC 3800 =07: 0 50 VME187 5 $01 Y ARCHIVE Python … Read More

Motorola M810 fun – pt 3

view of the openbsd 4.3 initial netboot: 187-Bug>NBO 00 00 Network Booting from: VME187, Controller 0, Device 0 Loading: INSTALL.tftpboot Client IP Address = 192.168.100.4 Server IP Address = 192.168.100.5 Gateway IP Address = 0.0.0.0 Subnet IP Address Mask = 255.255.255.0 Boot File Name = INSTALL.tftpboot Argument File Name = bsd.rd Network Boot File load … Read More

Motorola M810 fun – pt 4

openbsd fully installed – first bootup: Copyright Motorola Inc. 1988 – 1994, All Rights Reserved MVME187 Debugger/Diagnostics Release Version 2.2 – 01/14/94 COLD Start Local Memory Found =02000000 (&33554432) MPU Clock Speed =33Mhz Autoboot in progress… To abort hit <BREAK> Booting from: VME187, Controller 0, Drive 10 Loading: Operating System Volume: M88K IPL loaded at: … Read More

gtkpod + gentoo + quad xeon = temperature issues

CPU3: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1) CPU2: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1) Machine check events logged CPU3: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 6359) CPU2: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 6359) Machine check events logged CPU3: Temperature above … Read More