Using Ansible to update Linux distributions
Very simple play to do updates to RPM and DEB based systems.
Ansible reboot Debian/Ubuntu systems in sequence (update 08/18/2018)
Ever need to reboot a group of hosts in a controlled fashion? Automatically? Here is how to do that via Ansible.
Sumo Logic? Why not ELK?
What you trade for in using Sumo Logic (simplicity, no-maintenance, available everywhere) you pay for in time and complexity when you use ELK for your log management activities.
CrashPlanPRO_2010-03-08_Linux.tgz vs Linux-3.2.0
You are running the older release of Crashplan (CrashPlanPRO 2010-03-08) and you want to run the crashplan client headless on a newer distribution of Linux. The problem arises when the Linux kernel is 3.2.x or higher. The crashplan client on the linux box gives you this error: Exception in thread “W736065360_ScanWrkr” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.backup42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager at com.backup42.jna.inotify.JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.(JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.java:22) at […]
Local mirror server upgrade
Mirror server upgraded from 1.7 TiB to 3.8 TiB of storage, now we just need to fill it up!
Storage benchmarking hardware list
So here I am in my office at ipHouse finishing up the last runs of benchmarking reviewing my posts I have already done for Tegile’s Zebi and Tintri T540 appliances. I still need to finish one for Nexsan but won’t have time until later this weekend to complete it.
As I am getting closer to posting the actual results I wanted to share the storage and testing configurations now instead of including all of this in the results posting.
The dilemma – OS updates vs OS type
For years I have been a FreeBSD bigot. I love FreeBSD, the stability, performance, ease of use, and steady progression. But… Updates are kind of a chore, there is no such thing as true incremental updates, you either do patch updates against RELEASE, or you do world updates against STABLE. I am a STABLE kind of admin so my updates […]
Linux Distributions vs PHP
The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 – though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it and it is 2 years […]
UNIX Shell services, what’s the fuss?
Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what’s the big deal? I think I know… Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are no longer needed and support […]