Category Archives: System Administration
Oops
All the pictures in old entries are missing, and it seems that it is because a pictures folder was removed. Now looking for a backup. And this time perhaps I should let WordPress keep track of them instead of making … Continue reading
Using rxvt with [Open]Solaris.
After years of hard coding TERM to xterm or vt100 in .bashrc to get around rxvt incompatibility, I finally found this: sudo cp /usr/gnu/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt I suppose I really should use pfexec instead of sudo, but mastering that is a … Continue reading
OpenSolaris on the Intel D510MO Atom
I wanted to tryOpenSolaris on the new Atom board on a seperate disk before the machine got settled into normal use (normal use covered in this post). First impression, the LiveCD booted and worked correctly including graphics in VESA mode … Continue reading
Zones on a single server
A few months ago my co-located Solaris server was hit by a root kit that setup a IRC bot. It appeared that it got it by attacking one of the off the shelf web apps I use. To prevent having … Continue reading
Setting up a jumpstart server for Solaris Express.
I guess this post will have a somewhat limited life span since Solaris Express is being retired in favor of OpenSolaris. However, some of the pages I always refereed to every time I needed to do this have disappeared, so … Continue reading
PostgreSQL connection pooling for mod_php
In a quest for better performance with postgres, I’ve been looking for connection pooling tools. There are a few quirks that I tend to require be met. First, it must run on Solaris. This isn’t so much a quirk, since … Continue reading
How to reset a wordpress user password via SQL.
I found I had forgotten an admin password on a WordPress site I run. After figuring out how to reset it, I thought I would stick it here so that I can find it myself again in the future. UPDATE … Continue reading
Databases for simple web development
I have log been a fan of PostgreSQL over MySQL, believe that PostgreSQL is more feature complete and generally as fast or faster, with obvious caveats about being used appropriately, of course, and not to mention no real comparative testing. … Continue reading
Making Miro work with USB sound devices on Ubuntu
On Ubuntu (and possibly other linux distributions) Miro refuses to work with a secondary sound card, it will only work with the primary one despite what the ALSA default is set to, unlike most programs which offer some way to … Continue reading
A few Solaris 10 notes
Actually, these are primarily Solaris 11 notes, but they will probably all apply to Solaris 10 when the next release comes out, which I understand to be scheduled for sometime later this month. First, recently a lot of SCSI hard … Continue reading
