We’re an enterprisey shop. Our department has no public-facing services. Our shop’s customers are engineer employees at our company, and you could basically consider our department a large lab operations group at a deep-but-slow think tank. This will be a pretty moronic post to anyone involved in providing performant web services for a salary, but [...]
Category Archives: Sysadmin
On Pithy Bullshit Analogies
November 14, 2011 – 3:05 pm
I’ve had it with the pithy bullshit analogies, especially via Tweets. Belittling those who productively scrutinize and debate similar software offerings is LAME. I’m so sick of hearing people dismiss “Chef vs. Puppet” discussions (and hundreds of other very valid comparison-style blog posts, etc) as worthless, un-enlightened, and several other holier-than-thou attributions, as if the [...]
Graphite for RHEL 5.7
November 1, 2011 – 8:14 pm
Graphite install for RHEL 5.7 from scratch. Official Graphite documentation is at http://graphite.readthedocs.org/ export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin mkdir -p /graphite/src cd /graphite/src # Download Python 2.7.x source from python.org # Unpackage cd Python-2.7.2 ./configure –prefix=/graphite make make install cd .. # Now make sure you get your python before RHEL’s export PATH=/graphite/bin:$PATH # Download Django 1.x source [...]
Explaining Syslog to RH Support
November 1, 2011 – 1:06 pm
Were my expectations too high? Support, what RHEL service is logging this? rhnsd? yum-updatesd? It should show the process name in the syslog output. Please fix? Oct 27 10:00:04 rcf-monitor : 4 updates available Response: I think that rfc-monitor is likely a third-party service of some sort. I haven’t been able to find any mention [...]
twm Shirt
August 26, 2011 – 10:18 pm
Paying homage to the classic Tab/Tom’s Window Manager, it’s the twm shirt, available with no markup in cost toward my wallet. Designed by yours truly. If you’d like to do something else with the design, here it is in multiple formats, and I’d love to hear if you liked it. OpenDocument Drawing Big-ass PNG @ [...]