Category Archives: Hardware

Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site

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Lots of people ask me how do I change the Up2date program on either redhat or Fedora?

So basically you edit the file called sources which is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn

There is a list of local sites for the UK which carry mirrors but the one I use is zeniiia

Just add the entries in the file above like so….

yum fedora-core-2

 http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/

 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/

 http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/2/i386/os/

 

yum updates-released-fc2

 

 http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora

/linux/core/updates/2/i386

 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora

/linux/core/updates/2/i386/

 http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/2/i386

this will then look at the site in the uk first rather than trying to go to the main redhat site.

Hope that helps you out.

NB: without the line breaks, had to do that to fit the urls on the blog page.

Samba 3.0.6

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Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6.

Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it.

I did have an odd problem where from time to time the windows drives mounted on the linux boxes seemed to hang.  This appears at first look to have now gone away.  Also the memory seemed to clock up really fast on the older version of Samba 3.0.5 and this doesnt seem to be happening, the memory is going up like there is a leak but much slower.

My linux machine is a mini-itx v800.

 

Server fails to sell on Ebay again

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Yet again the server fails to sell. I guess its quite specialised or it was the Wont post only deliver to the south of england, so if any one is looking for this kind of spec drop me a line. I will even look into posting it if someone wants it that bad. Here is the speel. Due to upgrading, now selling a dual xeon 2.4ghz server.

Less than a year old, all in working condition.

Many parts in it, may sell parts seperately if the price is right, contact me to discuss.  The server consists of ….

Case: Lian Li PC 70 Aluminium Full-Tower

PSU: Antec 550w

Supermicro X5DAE motherboard

2 * XEON 2.4Ghz cpu

Adaptec ultra 160 dual channel scsi raid card

5 * 18Mb scsi u160 10000rpm drives (3 ibm
[deskstar]
and 2 Quantam
[Atlas 10K III]) 2 * 18Mb scsi u160 10000rpm drives (1 of each of the above – never used in wrappers [backup for raid])

5 * coolermaster cool drives

1 * scsi cd/rw hp

1 * floppy

akasa round cables (various)

zalman fans (various)

2 * 256mb sticks of ddr ram

700 GBP
Contact me

if your interested

Colocated Servers are down

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My colocated servers seem to have stopped responding, rang the datacenter Dedipower and they looked into it.

There response was

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added by gary at Tuesday 31st of August 2004 04:58:32 PM:
Hi Paul,

It appeared that there was no activity on the NIC within your server. We replaced the netowrk cable with a new one and it appears everything is working again.

Please let me know if you are having any more problems.

We are sorry for any inconvenience, this is a very rare occurence.
Gary

added by customer at Tuesday 31st of August 2004 04:57:21 PM:
was that the one from the panel?? Or the one between some of the machines in the farm???

added by gary at Tuesday 31st of August 2004 05:02:56 PM:
Hi Paul,

This was the cable from the server to the switch. Not the cross-over between the two machines.

Cheers,
Gary

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So all back and working now, Farrow Computing back on line.