Category Archives: sandman

New Year Server Crash

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris

My server for some reason unknown to me crashed last night, in the middle of new year festivities. Extracts from my logs show the, hopefully, coincidental timing of it. Dec 31 23:56:15 sandman rsnapshot[11655]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.d/mail.cs278.org hourly: completed successfully … Continue reading →

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Into the New Year

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Chris

So it is the other side of the festive period and I am slightly better for it, financially. Next pay day should be even better, worked over 70 hours plus in 2 1/2 weeks. I bought myself a new phone … Continue reading →

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Eek!

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Chris

I noticed the e-mail alerts about my backups were a lot smaller than they should be, sure enough there was a problem. Logged into my server, and the prognosis was bad. chris@sandman:~$ ls /backup/ ls: reading directory /backup/: Input/output error … Continue reading →

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MySQL Set Default Character Set and Collation

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Chris

I am getting fed up with all the databases on my server being set to latin1 with a Swedish collation, I guess I am just being anal, anyhow. I found out how to configure MySQL so that it always uses … Continue reading →

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New Server Installation

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Chris

Recently I acquired a NSLU2 and have Debianised it, it is now serving inside the airing cupboard at home. I am using it has an SMTP gateway and DNS/DHCP server, I have configured it to forward all mail on to … Continue reading →

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