systems administration

So one of my clients wanted to get a relatively solid disk to disk backup system going for a production file share running on an Xserve G5 with OS X 10.3.9.

I recommended several raid products, amongst which were LaCie's new Biggest S2S Raid Array, Apple's X Serve Raid, and a couple consumer external FW drive models I like.

They chose the LaCie Biggest S2S. Its a pretty fair price for a 5 drive external raid array. It has a small foot print, and 1TB of storage in the Raid 1+0 configuration with a hotspare. I wish it supported Raid V though.. I'd like to squeeze a tiny bit more storage out of it and still get to keep the hot spare.

Looking for a new carrier neutral ColoFacility.

I've grown tired of my current colo provider. I need to find someplace new...
Any suggestions... I need a full cabinet 2 power drops and 10Mbps commit burstable to 100...

.darrel.

apache atomic vhost permissions with php...


1771 root user example.com/
0771 root user example.com/cgi-bin
0771 root user example.com/public_html
1777 root root example.com/tmp
0755 root root example.com/var (logs/stats/db's)

user : home=example.com

groups...
user: user
example.com: user,www-data

change group to example.com and chmod g+ws folder that both the webapp
and users need access to.

Until dotdeb gets the package done....
pecl install apc isn't smart enough to grab apxs2.


apt-get install php5-dev; # (phpize etc)
apt-get install apache2-dev; #(same reqs deal)

pecl download apc
tar -xvzf APC[tab]; # if you got a smat shell
cd APC[tab];
/usr/bin/phpize5 ;
./configure --enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap --with-apxs2 --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config
make; make install

default config.

extension=apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.optimization=0
apc.shm_size=32
apc.num_files_hint=500
apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.XXXXXX
apc.enable_cli=1

Well you can't do it with the 4.0 compiler that ships with the distribution... Its too strict.

Solution, use the gcc-3.3 compiler, and some useful includes.

apt-get install gcc-3.3 g++-3.3 libc6-dev

update Buildit

In the section under linux.i586/i686 (assuming you're running on a pentium or better system)...
CPLUS=gcc-3.3
CCOMP=gcc-3.3
LINKER='gcc-3.3'

Thats all there is to it... Tell the DSS developers to get up to date :).

Well got my new development server up and running... Well its not new, I've managed to update an old 1U from 500MHZ/64MB (it was a name server)->900MHZ/320MB... Its merrily been running along on Ubuntu Breezy since day 1.

There a three goals for this server..

1) Track thing.net development projects.

2) start developing thing.net's next generation hosting platform...
... Virtualization, Apache2, and the php5/mysql5 move....

3) Offer SCM/Project tracking support for small teams working on new media related software projects.