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- Email: matt@forsetti.com
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For anyone that would like to stay in touch with me beyond my last day at UConn:
IP fault tolerance on Debian Squeeze couldn’t be easier than with UCARP!:
apt-get install ucarp
iface eth0 inet static ... ucarp-vid 3 ucarp-vip <CLUSTER IP> ucarp-password <PASSWORD> ucarp-xparam -n iface eth0:ucarp inet static address <CLUSTER IP> netmask 255.255.255.255
A few notes:
Whelp, I’ve gone and done it — my first Git project, hosted at GitHub. I’ve used Subversion quite a bit, but this is my first foray into the world of DVCS.
Aside from the solid technology, the benefits of DVCS, the functionality of the GitHub platform … the GitHub Bootcamp and Help pages really sold me. The folks at GitHub really know how to ease the transition for new members. Great job, Hubbernauts!
The Dropbox Ubuntu package almost works on Debian Squeeze … except for one dependency with a numbering scheme that differs between Ubuntu and Debian. Here is a quick script that extracts the package, corrects the one dependency in DEBIAN/control, and repackages, leaving a new .deb suitable for Squeeze.
convertDropbox4Squeeze:
#!/bin/sh if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0" 'nautilus-dropbox_$version_$arch.deb' exit 1 fi DIR=`mktemp --directory` mkdir -p $DIR/DEBIAN dpkg-deb -x $1 $DIR/ dpkg-deb -e $1 $DIR/DEBIAN/ sed -i s/'libnautilus-extension1 (>= 1:2.22.2)'/'libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.22.2)'/ ${DIR}/DEBIAN/control dpkg-deb -b $DIR ${1%.*}_squeeze.deb rm -rf $DIR
Just download the .deb from the Dropbox site, then run
./convertDropbox4Squeeze nautilus_dropbox.......deb
And then just install the newly created nautilus_dropbx….squeeze.deb .
I’ve spent a good part of this week evaluating various solutions for monitoring and managing Linux servers. There are many solutions that meet some of the needs, but I have not found a single product that does everything I need. Without going into significant detail, here are my needs:
Candidate solutions:
Conclusion:
Nothing definitive yet, but I’m narrowing in on a combination of Zabbix and Puppet. I am still looking for something to automate the collection of inventory data, but I think this could be done using the Zabbix API to populate the Zabbix inventory (which is otherwise a manual process).
LazyWeb – any opinions?
Admittedly, the world of file services has changed since Novell ruled the roost with Netware. All sorts of new buzzwords exist: Web Content Management, Enterprise Document Management, Document Archiving, Knowledge Management … but you still can’t beat simple file storage service like Windows offers natively. Except, it is really hard to provide that kind of service at a very large scale.
So here is the question — how do I provide a file service with the following requirements:
Some have tried to convince me that Windows DFS can do all this, but I have yet to see a deployment that actually encompasses all of the above. Anyone have any references?
I am quite intrigued by OpenAFS, using the filedrawers web interface, and possibly using the Samba gateway to avoid deploying the OpenAFS client to every machine — anyone with any experience doing this? Anyone serve OpenAFS data out over DAV via Apache, mod_dav, and mod_waklog? Is filedrawers or DAV an acceptable mobile device access mechanism? Pitfalls?
What else should I be considering?