Entries written in April 2009

Written April 26, 2009 in linux

The High Availability Extension for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is now … … available. From the download center at Novell’s website.

I’m going to miss the irony of it not having been released yet. *sniffle*

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Written April 24, 2009 in howto, linux, sysadmin

You can use pacemaker with ocfs 1.4, but when you’re running service o2cb configure, you need to specify the “cluster stack” pcmk instead of the default o2cb. I haven’t tested this myself yet, but if I don’t blog it, I know I’ll forget it. :-P

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Written April 17, 2009 in sysadmin, webdev

I’ve installed Semantic Mediawiki in our existing mediawiki instance at work to start tracking some of the data we need to retain for compliance and audit documentation purposes.

As the list of things that we support has grown, the number of servers has grown, and our documentation overhead has …

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Written April 12, 2009 in linux, opensuse, sysadmin

Mm, alphabet soup.

I hadn’t looked into the cluster world since the last time we configured our cluster for SuSE 10.3 last year. Major groundswells, sinkholes, and shifts seem to have opened up … to the point where things aren’t even called the same anymore.

The big difference is that EVMS …

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Written April 9, 2009 in mysql

Two years ago, I reported a bug in MySQL Query Browser that caused it to crash on OS X and Linux. For those not in the know, MySQL Workbench is an attempt to get a GUI tool comparable to Microsoft’s SQL Explorer off the ground.

Today, the bug was

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Written April 8, 2009 in linux, opensuse, sysadmin

After months of throwing books at one another and not talking despite sitting almost back to back, my co-sysadmin and I are starting the next buildout/migration of our Xen virtual cluster at work. One of the big decisions that we’re making is the OS. In the past, we’ve skipped every …

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