crontab problems

*/5 * * * * wget http://www.scrapedfeeds.com/index.php?y=0&myh=backend&myh_op=cron > /dev/null 2>&1

why the hell do I still receive cron e-mails to the admin with the output?
I thought > /dev/null 2>&1 would do the job ??

too much

to much things to update and too much things to check.
Right now: SAMBA does not work at my client anymore. Sending a message at the IP address does work, but from my windows client I cannot see the device and the Qube cannot see the windows client :-(

Samba Problem

With my first qube3 it was running within 5 minutes, but with a new qube3 (the first one, crashed and burned the mainboard) I am not able to setup the simple SAMBA stuff again:

when using:

[root log]# smbclient -I 192.168.1.15 -L lilian

I am able to see the other system(s) but without the IP address it is not working.
I am not able to configure the ” linuxbackup ” as it gives error(s)

I think it has to do with hostname lookups through netbios cause I can access the linuxbox by entering \\192.168.1.100
but the hostname is not resolved (the windows clients did not alter their configurations.

Right now I noticed that I can use IP address for the share, but not the name.

So how can I resolv the local hostnames correctly?

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 :-)