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xen vcpu pinning defaults aren’t ideal

September 1st, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I noticed an oddity the other day with a xen Domain0 host we have. There’s a cron scripted job that verifies the RPM database and the RPM’s that are installed on the system, for some reason this job failed, but kept the process open, and kept spinning around trying to do it’s job. Now, I [...]

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TanTan flickr photo gallery broken after upgrade to WordPress 2.3

October 27th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

So I realised that the admin part of the Flickr Photo gallery plugin I use (which is at http://www.thefraggle.com/flickr/) was a bit broken after upgrading wordpress to v2.3. It appeared to work with the configuration I had set previously. However, when on the options page for the plugin, it was complaining of not being able [...]

Virtual domains in exim4

June 14th, 2007 Chris Ganderton 1 comment

I’ve been using exim for a while with virtual domain support, and thought it be best to document what I did somewhere. For a long time I wondered how I might actually support virtual domains in exim 4 and held off by just dumping all mail from all domains into my mailbox (how gosh darn [...]

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the number of servers you run …

April 13th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Well reading popeys blog entry on how many servers he has, and what he uses them for made me feel a bit better than I did previously, about running more than one server of my own for personal use. I only have three servers, and a workstation and a laptop; maybe I don’t waste as [...]

always check the disk free!

April 12th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Came up against the strangest problem the other day, which in the end made it blatantly clear that the most simple 1st checks should always be done; that is things like disk space etc. A server I have access too uses LDAP for user info and Kerberos5 for realm authentication. It was reported that this [...]

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