Month: September 2003

News

The Qube3 I bought this weekend was an older Cobalt Qube (so no Sun name on the outside to be found). I did several things:

installed the Standard Edition software on the 10GB Qube3 to remove the development software which was on it (Getronics stuff I believe)
After the installation and updates of the packages we had a working system again (after 3 hours). Than we ‘saved’ the most important data from the /home folder from the crashed 20GB disk with drive-image 7 and we placed the 20GB into the new Qube3. Again we restored the OS and updated it with the update-packages..

tonight: trying to get the server back in the air with the mixfans.org domain.

b.t.w. punkey.com is down also :-( due to severe server load, cause by MT (movabletype) his hoster is saying.

Weekend of disaster

Yesterday, my precious qube3 crashed. Does not want to boot anymore and no power at the board. (smoke!!)
We tried a second qube (yup we have a spare now) but swapping the harddisk did not solve the error.
No idea what is the cause .. I have one idea, but that can only be checked if I can access the Harddisk again.

The spare Qube3 is a development qube where we noticed that a normal internet connection is not possible and running a normal webserver is total out of the question. So we have to restore this little thing with an Intel / 3Com nic.

Meanwhile my collegue Pieter searched for a tool to access the ext2fs filesystem under XP. Pieter searched and found: Ext2fsd. As the ext2fs is journalized, I have only read-access. But lucky as we are we managed to save all our: images, websites etc..

The only trouble is the mysql databases. No idea how to retrieve those when you cannot run mysql anymore.

We are happy to see the sun again :-)

My Qube3 died

My qube does not eat power anymore :-( I am not happy :-((

Suddenly: smoke and flames.. Yup .. the qube3 is now officially dead :-(
Tonight we will pickup another qube3 which we were able to buy very fast through marktplaats.nl

domains down right now:
– mixfans.org
– griftstate.com
– scrapedfeeds.com
– liliancam.net

:-(

linux logfiles home-access

At my homeserver I have 1 logfile: home-access, this file is removed every hour. But I want to create multiple files for every domain hosted. But how the hell can I add these files by CRON that they are removed again? or rotatated?

any linux geek here?
Thanks