Re: I got a message from google this morning.

2012-05-13 Thread Alex Dean
Are you sure that message is from Google? Could be more phishing. On May 13, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote: This is the second message I've gotten from them telling me someone broke into my account. The first time it was someone in China and this time someone in Georgia. Is google

Re: ot

2012-04-19 Thread Alex Dean
They have a great API for this data also. http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/documentation.html On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Brandon wrote: I use this. Gives close to live updates from people who use personal web enabled weather stations.

Re: Win 2k3 co-located server and Linux Samba Mirrors

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Dean
configuration, the drbd block device won't tell the filesystem that a write is done until the data is on-disk on both cluster nodes. So latency to the secondary node is a crucial performance bottleneck. Check it out for your scenario, though. If you have the right pre-requisites, drbd is pretty great. alex

Re: OT: Health Insurance

2012-03-15 Thread Alex Dean
Keep in mind that if you're self-employed, your premiums other health-related expenses may be tax-deductible. http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch06.html#en_US_2011_publink1000208843 On Mar 15, 2012, at 10:48 AM, keith smith wrote: I took a look and what I saw was a coinsurance of 40%

Re: Test Driven Dev for CI?

2012-03-12 Thread Alex Dean
If I remember correctly Cucumber will make HTTP requests to your test server. So there's no reason you couldn't write your tests in Ruby even if the server code is PHP. You can use CI server like Jenkins to run your PHPUnit tests. On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Eric Cope wrote: I use the

Re: ruby or python

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Dean
There is no best language. Just pick one. If you've already started with Plone, learn Python. If you do a project and don't like the framework or the language, try a new one. There aren't really any shortcuts to figuring out what you like. You just need to put in the time to try things.

Re: phpMyAdmin via Yum on CentOS 6.2

2012-01-18 Thread Alex Dean
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am trying to install phpmyadmin via yum on CentOS 6.2. I have Percona55 installed, as well as php5.3.3 and httpd. It seems the php-mysql package requires MySQL 5.1 (Percona 5.1). Is there anyway to work this

Re: Throttling mysql command line

2012-01-18 Thread Alex Dean
the script which is issuing the queries probably won't help much. Try using EXPLAIN to see if you can make your queries more efficient. After that, look into setting up MySQL replication. You can run your reporting queries against a slave database, and keep that load off the master. alex

Re: Throttling mysql command line

2012-01-18 Thread Alex Dean
server's filesystem. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html As others suggested, do inserts in batches and sleep. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: New UPS

2011-12-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: I just put in a replacement UPS (Tripp-Lite G1010USB) and connected the USB cable. I see that Ubuntu 10.04 does see it but I have no idea how to tell if it will actually pay attention if the UPS ever tells it to shut down. Short of a power

Re: training

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Dean
of an eloquent way to make the same point, and I couldn't say it better than this. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman

Re: someone figured out my email address

2011-11-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Michael Havens wrote: Before I left for Peru I got an email from Google telling me that someone in China had accessed my gmail account and that I should change my password unless it was me accessing my account from China. Well, I changed my pass word. Then I

Re: SCADA/Municipal water system attacks

2011-11-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Quite correct. It would be cracked quite key. But not as fast as a real word, or modified word using say 0 for o and maybe@ for a. http://xkcd.com/936/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Brookings: CyberSecurity In the Balance - 2 New Bills

2011-11-17 Thread Alex Dean
Adding to /etc/hosts would probably work, though, since then your browser will be sending the Host: header needed by the server. Just browsing directly to the IP address won't do that. alex On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: That doesn't always work. Take cases where

Re: OT: bookmark storage?

2011-09-16 Thread Alex Dean
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Matt Graham wrote: The main problem there is populating the table with all your initial bookmarks. Firefox can save bookmarks as JSON. Most languages you're likely to use have JSON-parsing libs to make getting this data pretty easy.

Re: OT: bookmark storage?

2011-09-15 Thread Alex Dean
, for FF: http://www.andyhalford.com/syncplaces/ cross-browser: http://pinboard.in alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us

Re: OT: bookmark storage?

2011-09-15 Thread Alex Dean
On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Stephen wrote: Foxmarks functionality is somewhat redundant with FF 4+ and a built in sync mechanism https://services.mozilla.com/ But that's neither self-hosted or cross-browser, which is a shame. alex --- PLUG

Re: htaccess rewrite rule

2011-08-22 Thread Alex Dean
#rewriteloglevel alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: OT: How to use html form input to append input to a file?

2011-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
not active QWidget::repaint: Recursive repaint detected QWidget::repaint: Recursive repaint detected Those are QT errors. I have no idea why you're seeing them as the result of a web form submission. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: CentOS 6 almost ready!

2011-07-11 Thread Alex Dean
version was years out of date (according to the SSL version number). After a little more digging I realized that RH was delivering patches. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Apache Configuration

2011-07-07 Thread Alex Dean
://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#alias alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Apache Configuration

2011-07-06 Thread Alex Dean
to be served from the default virtual host. 'httpd -S' (or whatever the Debian equivalent is) will show you how Apache parsed your virtual host directives. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe

Re: iptables help

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Nathan England wrote: I'm running a fedora 14 machine with eth0 being internal and eth1 being external. It is setup for transparent proxying with dansguardian and squid. All works well. I also have apache running for web development on port 80, and I can access

Re: How to verify Qmail is not configured with an open relay.

2011-04-28 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 27, 2011, at 9:15 PM, keith smith wrote: Any idea how I test my configuration to ensure I do not have an open relay again? I found this tool helpful when I had similar concerns: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html alex --- PLUG-discuss

Re: Monitor changes to a file

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Dean
to write a shell script to wait for a modification event on your file, and run stat or lsof when the file is changed. That's not perfect, since the modifying process might be done by the time lsof actually runs, but it seems like it's worth a try. alex

Re: PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Dean
If you're familiar with gdb, you can debug the segfault that way. Try starting Apache with just a single worker process, and attache gdb to the worker. Then submit your form, and get a backtrace when the segfault occurs. On Feb 28, 2011, at 3:26 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: My guess

Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-26 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 25, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: What if I just delete the files that have stale NFS file handles and re-install them? Mark Then you have

Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
NFS-related services running? Afaik, an NFS server shouldn't get stale file handles. That's a client's problem. RedHat/Fedora: $ rpm -qa | grep nfs Debian/Ubuntu: $ dpkg --list | grep nfs Both: $ ls /etc/init.d | grep nfs alex --- PLUG

Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: # mount | grep nfs return anything? hammerhead:/home/mark# mount | grep nfs rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs

Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Mark

Re: text-level semantics and the blind?

2011-01-28 Thread Alex Dean
On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote: Chas, now you begin to see some of the problems I experience on some sites right now. html5 is going to make things at least 1 order or magnitude worse. Are there particular aspects of HTML 5 which are problematic? alex

Re: Backup

2011-01-19 Thread Alex Dean
On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Eric - A wrote: What is a simple program to do full and incremental backups of my hardrive? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. rdiff-backup is rsync plus retention of old snapshots. (So you can restore a file as it was X days ago, which can be nice.) The thing I love

Re: Looking for Cheap Calling to Canada

2011-01-05 Thread Alex Dean
If you only want to make calls, not receive them, check out the large variety of prepaid calling cards out there. Add a phone booth or hotel phone, and you should get ~ 2cents/minute. alex On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Steve Phariss wrote: Would google voice be an option it is less well

Re: Web Deployment OS or COTS (was RE: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git)

2010-12-28 Thread Alex Dean
/wiki/2.x-Getting-Started alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: How to ssh copy a file from local to web host when logged in?

2010-12-20 Thread Alex Dean
is complete. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: How to ssh copy a file from local to web host when logged in?

2010-12-20 Thread Alex Dean
On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Matt Graham wrote: This is really a terrible idea, and if you can transfer the files in any other way, it's preferable. But it does seem to work. Nice one. A terrible idea, and a shining beacon of haxx0r 1337-ness! alex

Re: SPAM on PLUGSITE

2010-12-15 Thread Alex Dean
comments.) http://drupal.org/project/spam alex On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote: Steve, don't worry about it. the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I agree that CAPTCHAS are inherently evil. I have problems on walmartmoneycard.com. I cannot log in because of the stupid CAPTCHA

Re: Mounting Files across virtual machines

2010-12-10 Thread Alex Dean
? It's a decent solution for this request. That said, VMWare probably has a VirtualBox shared folder-like feature that would be ideal for this. VMWare has HGFS (host/guest file system). http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html alex

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-07 Thread Alex Dean
system. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

what is nagios 'SECURITY information'?

2010-11-29 Thread Alex Dean
3.0.6-5ubuntu3 documentation for nagios3 I'll paste in 1 example email, including all the headers. If anyone has any idea what these mean, I'd be very grateful for some input. thanks, alex Return

Re: Lost control panel on Drupal after move from testing to live

2010-11-10 Thread Alex Dean
Check the rules in your .htaccess file, then try setting $base_url in sites/default/settings.php. On Nov 10, 2010, at 1:40 PM, keith smith wrote: Hi, I'm stuck with a Drupal problem. We built a Drupal site using a sub-domain drupal.x.tld. Then when we were ready to make it

Re: Lost control panel on Drupal after move from testing to live

2010-11-10 Thread Alex Dean
On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: If this is not D6.14 (or those changes/patch does not resolve), try adding to settings.php: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ RewriteCond

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Dean
to support SSL. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/secure-connections.html I suggest doing that on some port other than 3306, since 3306 is normally for unencrypted mysql traffic. alex On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:00 AM, keith smith wrote: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Dean
(and if your web service APIs are decent) then the desktop application doesn't need to know anything about those schema changes. You can deploy the schema change and an updated web service at the same time, and the same desktop client should continue to work just fine. alex

Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

2010-10-06 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Andrew Harris wrote: Disable Bonjour on your devices before it comes to skeletal robots with miniguns mounted on either shoulder. And French-speaking skeletal robots, no less. At least they say 'hello' before they blast you.

Re: drive performance

2010-10-01 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:32 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 30. Sep, 2010 schwätzte Eric Shubert so: Which elevator is being used? (cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler) noop anticipatory deadline [cfq] Using async i/o? Synchronous writes are very slow. Hmm, not familiar with libaio. Looks like

Re: drive performance

2010-10-01 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Alex Dean wrote: On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:32 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 30. Sep, 2010 schwätzte Eric Shubert so: Which elevator is being used? (cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler) noop anticipatory deadline [cfq] Using async i/o? Synchronous

Re: Why do my local network ip addresses keep changing?

2010-10-01 Thread Alex Dean
which machine has which address, or accidentally giving the same address to 2 machines. This is especially handy since the local DNS server is in the same place, so getting MAC - IP - DNS all lined up correctly is really simple. alex --- PLUG-discuss

Re: Verify if an email address exists.

2010-09-08 Thread Alex Dean
to. Aliases, catch-all accounts, etc can all play a part. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: Linux CP command

2010-08-16 Thread Alex Dean
On Aug 13, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Shawn Badger wrote: Mysql stores the databases in an individual folder for each database. mysql MYISAM does that. Innodb other storage engines uses other mechanisms. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: How to use 'convert' to change several from png to jpg?

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Dean
On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: The imagemagick suite of software comes with a nice utility called mogrify in a nut shell it does what convert does, but it does it to the files directly. The best part is, that is takes all the same arguments as convert. FYI convert is

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 28

2010-07-29 Thread Alex Dean
) in hosts.allow so you don't lock yourself out of your remote server - and don't have to walk down the hall and root around in the closet.. ;) Or sheepishly ask the guy in the data center to do it for you (been there.) alex --- PLUG-discuss

use web page as screen saver?

2010-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
of any tutorials for displaying a web page as screensaver content? (Or some other way to get a web page displayed full-screen, without any window chrome at all.) thanks, alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: use web page as screen saver?

2010-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Matt Graham wrote: From: Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org Getting software to display a series of images seems like no problem. I find lots of options there. But I'd also like to sometimes display a web page, so (for instance) I can see the weather report from 7-8 am

Re: Migrating from MySQL 5.0.41 to 5.1.44

2010-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
missing priv columns. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-upgrade.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading.html The docs are good. Use 'em! alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: The inevitable eventual cost of computers.

2010-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
on their part. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.

2010-07-27 Thread Alex Dean
development code? Have you considered using a version control system instead? Granted, you then need to make backups of your repositories, but you gain a whole wealth of other benefits. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:03 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 25. Jul, 2010 schwätzte Technomage so: There is a program in OpenBSd that can help with this. its called carp. you have 2 machines running, one the primary and the other the backup. if the main fails, carp kicks in and take possession if

Re: Saw this off Slashdot - 200 Linux machine

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Dean
picture frame. http://www.plugcomputer.org/ https://www.soekris.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=85 http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2i-specifications/ alex On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:44 AM, keith smith wrote: It still needs a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Another $200.00. So

Re: Saw this off Slashdot - 200 Linux machine

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Dean
it's not fair to bash the end product of the article when the authors were working with such severe constraints, but I don't feel like any bashing is really going on. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: row-based or query-based MySQL log-bins?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Dean
://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-formats.html alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Dean
work just fine. If you then set up the old master as a slave to the new master, you'll be able to switch back to using myisam on your master (as a saftey net). alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-24 Thread Alex Dean
Egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there were chickens. On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: BTW - Their is an answer to the chicken and egg problem. Both - But which answer your choose depends purely on if you are a creationist or evolutionist at hart. I claim the scientists

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:01 PM, der.hans wrote: Am 23. Jul, 2010 schwätzte Alex Dean so: Hm. Are users on the slave modifying tables which get replicated from the master? That's grandma's recipe for data stew. You can't do that if you Yeah and yeah. I'm going to change that. have any

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-24 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 24, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I agree with Alex but this just follows logical design of separation. You dev, qa, prod, ha, and dr environments should be separated and used for those set purposes. Unfortunately I also know that if this most elementary step has not been take

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-23 Thread Alex Dean
on the slave, that's probably not a huge issue. If you want to describe the situation in a little more detail we can help comment further on how bad/not-bad it all is. :) alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: how to generate an image only html file in bash

2010-07-17 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Technomage wrote: echo Content-type: text/html index.html FWIW : This header is supplied by the server and shouldn't be part of your document. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: App Engine?

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: Not many systems require that kind of scale This is the key. Most of what your going on about is totally irrelevant to most developers and their users. 'Bigger' does not imply 'better', and if you don't need to get massive, you can

remove timestamp/watermark from digital images

2010-07-02 Thread Alex Dean
of doing them all by hand is a little overwhelming. Any ideas? thanks, alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman

Re: Rotating apache logs

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Dean
versions of log files adding a daily extension like MMDD instead of simply adding a number. http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Re: OT: In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Dean
, without bundled junk I didn't want etc. and 2. it was fun. If it were anything but an in-home machine I would have stuck with a commercial vendor. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: OT: In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Dean
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Matt Graham wrote: From: Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:11 PM, keith smith wrote: Reliability is important to me. I just don't fee like I want to research components, buy them and build them. I built my first from-scratch system about a year

Re: Having chroot Problems with MySQL

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Dean
status 1 Check the mysql error log syslog in your chroot to see if you can figure out why MySQL failed to start. Could be as simple as file ownership/permissions. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: Having chroot Problems with MySQL

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Dean
On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action start

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Dean
, and it's not 'doing anything'. It's just sitting there waiting for the primary server to fail. Yes, this is true. You just have to keep in mind that if it were 'doing something', you'd miss it if it died, and that's not really high-availability. alex

Re: UG News: *Free to Choose* Ebook Deal of the Day. Any O'Reilly ebook. Only $9.99.

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Dean
Has anyone used our 'DSUG' discount code on oreilly.com lately? I used that several times to get 40%, though I'm not sure it still works or not. alex On May 21, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: Looks like a good deal from O'Reilly. (Sorry for the HTML email. O'Reilly doesn't send

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Dean
, configure a virtual IP which can be moved from one server to another. Your DNS A record will point to the virtual IP. When the IP moves, all your traffic moves with it. Heartbeat does this really well. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
recommending you become very familiar with these issues before going live with this setup. http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Main_Page http://people.linbit.com/~florian/heartbeat-users-guide/ Let me/us know if you have specific questions once you start setting things up. Good luck! alex

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
On May 19, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Matt Iavarone wrote: I think the original question was around stateless load balancing, not clustering. Cross DC clustering is a headache, but HA web sites aren't exactly terchnical challenges these days. He said he wanted 1 server in each data center, so

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
. Then... practice the steps needed to actually use those backups. Discovering that your backups require 18 hours of restore time before you can get them into production is awful. Doubly awful if you discover it only when you actually need to use them. Yes, it happened to me. :) alex

Re: Ot hard drive stress test

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
of hard drives, which brand do u guys recommend? Bonnie++ is a disk benchmarking tool, but you can use it for stress testing as well. Pretty easy to compile on Linux. I'm not sure if it works on OSX or windows. alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: load balanced configuration

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
://www.howtoforge.com/mysql_database_replication http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqld-multi.html alex --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe

Re: PERL vs. Shell scripting for server automation.

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Dean
On May 19, 2010, at 8:16 PM, keith smith wrote: Well Shell looks like Chinese to me. I bet I can learn it as I have learned a number of languages. I think knowing what to do [with Linux] might be more difficult than learning a language. I did some PERL scripting about 10 years ago.

Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Dean
On May 18, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: Wake up and smell the coffee. This coffee doesn't smell anything like linux. Can this please be ended? This thread has run its course. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Dean
On May 18, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On May 18, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: Wake up and smell the coffee. This coffee doesn't smell anything like linux. Can this please be ended

ending unwanted threads

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Dean
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Re: ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Dean
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Re: Interface Teaming/NIC Bonding Virtualhost IP Binding

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Dean
On May 6, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: It's my understanding that NIC bonding under 2.6 kernels using modern modules is limited to a single IP address using multiple interfaces (without any IP address configuration). The bonding driver can create a single virtual interface

Re: Need Help With MYSQL InnoDB

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Dean
. Did you perhaps restore a backup .frm which had a table definition which doesn't match what's in the InnoDB data files? (Wild guess) http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_File_Formats alex PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

finding all configured IP addresses in /proc

2010-04-28 Thread Alex Dean
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Re: volatile repo for CentOS

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:27 PM, der.hans wrote: moin moin, Does CentOS have something similar to debian-volatile that tracks packages that change a lot and need more frequent updates than happen in slow-moving distros like CentOS and Debian? How about the testing repo?

Re: ganglia gmond/gmetric guide?

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Dean
all the gmond logs. alex PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http

Re: ganglia gmond/gmetric guide?

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:26 PM, der.hans wrote: Am 30. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Alex Dean so: moin moin Alex, what you wrote below is the best ganglia guide I've found. By far the best I've found! Danke! No problem. Glad it helps. Maybe I'll turn it into a blog post at some point. I'll

Re: x86 vs. x86_64

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Dean
or VirtualBox might have advantages for this kind of thing, I'm interested in hearing about them. The host is Ubuntu, but the guests will be RHEL5, so I think that means I can't use OpenVZ since they'll have different kernel versions. Someone correct me if I've got that wrong. thanks, alex ps

Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:53 -0600, Alex Dean wrote: On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:47 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir because I have .svn

Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment

2010-03-12 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Eric Cope wrote: Alex, Can you share more about how you operate this testing machine? Does this machine do automatic daily testing? how do you control it? Is it cron/bash based? I am working on a web application. Would it be possible to port my PHP unit

Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Dean
unpacks the tarball and runs a script to fire the whole thing up. We don't support Windows for this app, so I don't have any experience packaging for that platform. I think our other products which do run on Windows use an InstallShield installer. alex On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Eric

Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Dean
On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:47 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir because I have .svn files I don't want to include as well as test directories. I planned on using a form of tar/zip.

Re: Installing Redmine

2010-02-25 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 25, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Craig White wrote: for instructions on building the mod_fcgi module for apache. Many moons ago I built mod_fcgi for use with PHP5. Notes are here in case that's still useful... http://www.deanspot.org/~alex/php5fcgi/index.html alex PGP.sig Description

Re: Best distribution for an infant :)

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Dean
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: Suggestion: Don't give her a computer. The best form of education for any child or adult does NOT directly involve computers. She will have computers pushed upon her soon enough, no need to rush it. I second that. My 3-year-old son built a

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