http://metahusky.net/~gavin/wiki/
2009-06-01T11:13:06+01:00
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snmpget hostname public .1.3.6.1.4.1.789.1.2.2.1.0 |perl -pe ‘s/ = ([-]*\d*)//;$a = $1; if ($a lt 0) {$a += 4294967296;};print “$a\n$a\n0\n”‘; Swap disks To swap disks: disk swap Remove the failed disk Wait 30 seconds Ins...text/html2008-09-19T17:07:46+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.198.134)start
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Personal Datacentre and Unix systems administrator Specialist skills: Datacentre design, implementation and management; large scale storage (petabytes); large scale backups; off-site replication and disaster recovery. Projects / News ...text/html2008-05-15T22:30:21+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@85.211.181.10)gtd_in_vi - created
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...text/html2008-01-09T18:33:40+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.198.143)calendaring
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With Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard), proper support for CalDav has arrived. Along with this, Apple also developed a CalDav server, which compiles cleanly on 10.4 and above. As I had a 10.4 Powermac which isn’t fast enough to run Leopard, I decided to ...text/html2007-11-01T12:20:30+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)mountain_biking
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http://www.astonhill.com - Obscenely challenging downhill courses. 5 UKP a day. Recommended you have full face helmet and are highly experienced. I had great trouble just riding round, it’s that tough. Difficulty: Severe. Chicksands / Rown...text/html2007-10-25T10:28:05+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)sans_and_hbas
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There are three kinda of HBAs in my world. All are in use under Solaris only. QLogic QLC cards. QLogic QLA cards. Emulex LPFC cards. The QLC cards are fine for SAN disk storage but do not work with SAN tapes. That is, if you plan to attach you...text/html2007-10-08T12:13:09+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)bike_running_costs
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Running total of running costs for Marin Rocky Ridge 2007 after one year of ownership. Estimated 1000 miles, 70% on road, 20% off road, 10% knee deep mud. Rear wheel rebuild - 50. New SRAM x9 derailler, original bent and unusable - 55. New SRAM ...text/html2007-09-27T15:37:42+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)procmail
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My latest procmailrc # gavin@metahusky.net:.procmailrc # 19/04/05 - Overhauled the recipes. Updated comments, as some stuff has # been uncommented for four years. # 30/05/07 - Added greylisting. Based loosely on pete@ebi.ac.uk's # procmail greylist...text/html2007-09-11T09:45:52+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)xen_virtualisation
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I’ve recently been playing with Xen on Centos 5. In the following notes, PM is Physical Machine (domain 0) and VM is a Virtual Machine (domain U) Features of Xen (3.03): Resize the memory of a VM, but not larger than the size the VM was orig...text/html2007-09-10T15:17:29+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)mutt
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I compile mutt from source on my mac with the following options: ./configure --enable-imap --with-ssl msmtp Although mutt now support SMTP sending, I use msmtp. In your .muttrc: set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/msmtp -a MyAccount" My goo...text/html2007-09-10T14:46:14+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.99)sunray
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SunRay is a thin X-client from Sun. They can be used for hot-desking and working-from-home. They support multiheaded (upto 16 displays) and have an RDP client that works with Windows Vista (and XP and 2000 and 2003 Server...). Don’t even bothe...text/html2007-06-27T21:36:47+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@85.211.195.184)european_tour
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Cambridge→Folkestone→Paris→Gronigen→Rotterdam→Harwich→Cambridge. On a BMW R1200GS. Google maps: http://shrunk.net/16a0b326 Kit: R1200GS with BMW panniers Givi E52 top box. Garmin Quest GPS with RAM mount and moto...text/html2007-05-31T14:39:26+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.86)tru64 - created
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Press Ctrl-C during the BIOS memory test to drop to the Alpha Bios / Openboot. From there: boot -flags S Mounting a CDROM mount -r /dev/disk/cdrom0c /cdrom Remount root filesystem as RW mount -u / Changing the speed of a NIC According to the ...text/html2007-05-31T14:35:56+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.86)sun_v40z - created
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share -F nfs -o ro /v40z java -jar /v40z/2/update_server/V2.2.0.6/updateServer.jar -f /v40z/sw_images/sp/spbase/V2.3.0.15/install.image -p 50000 On the SP: sp add mount -r 193.62.196.15:/v40z -l /mnt platform set power state off -f sp update flash...text/html2007-05-31T14:34:50+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.86)snmp - created
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This is the easiest way to use SNMP - get the MIB file for the device in question and refer to it. snmpget hostname public -m /usr/share/snmp/mibs/mib-device.txt STUFF-MIB::ThingIwantToRead For example, with our UPS: snmpget ups public -m /home/kel...text/html2007-05-31T14:32:12+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.86)rrdtool
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Assuming we take a reading once every 5 minutes from cron, we want to store every reading for 1 day, the half-hour average for a week and the hourly average for 2 years. rdtool create foo.rrd --step 300 DS:NFSOPS:COUNTER:3600:U:U \ RRA:AVERAGE:0.8:...text/html2007-05-31T14:24:11+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.86)openssl - created
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openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 1024 openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt ...text/html2007-03-14T18:06:37+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.225)legato_networker
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Sometimes, depending on your setup, Networker will only mount the first tape to be read from in a recovery, and then sits there re-reading and re-mounting the tape, but not actually getting anywhere. The nwrecover process keeps reporting the Network...text/html2007-02-16T15:17:24+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.225)solaris
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Report the current speed and duplexity of a NIC, in this case, hme0 ndd -set /dev/hme instance 0 ndd -get /dev/hme link_speed ndd -get /dev/hme link_mode Link speed: 0 means 10mbit. 1 means 100mbit. 1000 means 1000mbit. Link Mode: 0 means ha...text/html2007-01-15T11:54:09+01:00Gavin Kelman (gavin@193.62.199.177)bind
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or nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. ns1.example.com Querying an NS for entries List the MX records for a domain, using nameserver ns1.example.com. dig domainname.com MX @ns1.example.com List the listed nameservers for a domain, using ...