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Looking back over the last year I was thinking about which new application has made the most impact in my day to day work. My first thought was Xen and what it's done for the servers, but that path had been started down previous to me taking over the reigns as sysadmin. I don't feel comfortable putting Xen in the category of applications either as ( Read more... )

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One thing I hate is having to do something over and over again and usually my laziness gets me into doing more work up front. This afternoons project was getting my server scan to post to our wiki. Cron'd to run once a week is a nmap scan of my servers (replace your ip set for 1.2.3.4 of course)

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At first I was having some issues with the Hi-Rely eSata drive array swapping drives in and out. So I ended up reading the Symantec boards and found it to be a common issue. Perl of course came the rescue and a little bit of glue fixed it all up. Here's the quick program I came up with to check which drives are available and pause and drives that ( Read more... )

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