Hmm… Another random server hang yesterday. I look in the log file and as usual there is nothing. The syslog file stops at 11:45 on Friday and starts again today when I rebooted the server.
I love computers.
Bumper Sticker
Saw this bumper sticker yesterday.
I thought it was pretty funny.
Coolleen.com
One of my coworkers (Colleen) finally registered her own domain name – coolleen.com (clever, eh?) and pointed it at my server.
Check it out at http://www.coolleen.com/. (Now she just needs to redesign those pages. Gack.)
Hmmm
Not much going on right now. This weekend was a mish-mosh of stuff.
Worked on the house on Friday and Sunday. Got some siding scraped. Fit a new front door threshold. Figured out a better way to make storm window corner joints.
Saturday Stephanie’s soccer team won their first game 3-1! They were excited. Then I went and helped Eric with his K75 clutch some more. We got it all back together.
Went to the Guthrie and saw Pygmalion Sunday night. That’s an interesting play. Some really good acting and beautiful sets and costumes.
Ah well. We’ll see if this week is more interesting.
Beautiful Ride
Went for a nice short (300 miles) ride to Duluth last night for dinner. Wrote up a page about it here: Ride Report.
It was a beautiful afternoon and evening for a ride yesterday.
More House Work
Let’s see, what did I do this weekend?
I’m taking Fridays off for a few weeks to get some work done on the house.
This weekend I replaced more siding, finished up two new storm windows and finished up the flashing on the small roof that I redid last week.
Nothing but fun at my house.
Shit
Well, this was a fun weekend. I logged into my server to check my email. When I tried to reply to an email, I got a «User Unknown» error. Huh?
Sounds like it’s trying to deliver locally.
Some digging around indicates a DNS issue. Humm… So I cat /etc/resolv.conf.
«File IO error.»
Uh-oh. That’s not good. I’ll shut down and do an FSCK in single user mode.
FSCK shows no problems, so I ctrl-d out of single-user mode to bring it up. A prompt comes up that asks what runlevel I want to go into. Hmmm… Never seen that before. Well, 3 it is.
Nope. 3 it isn’t. It tells me there is nothing in the inittab about runlevel 3. Oh shit.
It appears that there was some file corruption going on and the mirrored file system dutifully copied the corrupt files over to the other disc.
Crap, crap, crap.
I figured since I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the SCSI drives and the software RAID, that maybe it’s time to dump the lot. So I went and bought an 80GB IDE drive and rebuilt the server.
Luckily I managed to salvage all the data off the old drives, so we should be just as before.
What a PITA! Just how I wanted to spend my Sunday evening…
Bicycle Laws
I just got this link from an email list my friend has for a bicycle club. It’s the MN laws for bicycles.
Interesting.
RC Helecopter Video
Someone at work passed this link around:
http://rob.com/matt/rc/rc_video/alan_vegasfunflydemo_2004.wmv
It’s really cool. I would love to have an RC Helicopter, but they are really expensive. Ah well, when I win the lottery…
Old server – dead
Looks like the old server has died for some reason. It’s up and responding to pings, but unresponsive in any other manner.
I discovered this when DNS stopped resolving today. Whoops.
Luckily I had already installed DNS on the new server and I just had to move the NAT on my firewall.
But the home network is still pulling DNS, DHCP and print services from the old server.
Looks like I have some work to do tonight…