The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
posix_setgid only sets the primary group for the process. So make sure the group permissions you’re relying is a single group, who’s GID is set in /etc/passwd. Took me over an hour to trace that bug down today.
Continue ReadingFor anyone who claims that IE7 is “the best browser there is” (Davey…), this might just put it in a different light. Goto http://www.plfc.org.uk/ and look at the first link on the page, “FIEC”. Notice (in IE7) that there’s a little gap after it, like there’s a . Well, look at it in FireFox, Opera, […]
Continue ReadingI’ve spent the last couple of days bugfixing some code I wrote for the church website and writing some new code for various things. Had a superb headache while chasing one extremely weird bug just now, the piece of code below was never giving me more than 1 line of printout (which is weird, as […]
Continue ReadingSo I promised some updates… well here goes. I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working through a rather (and increasingly) large list of “to-dos” down the church, everything from replacing maintained light strips to cleaning the windows, and not forgetting producing hard backups of all the server filesystems. It’s good fun to do, […]
Continue ReadingBeen an interesting one this year… I’ll blog more later 😉 Lets just say 60+mph winds are not fun when camping.
Continue ReadingFor anyone following this blog (is there anyone? lol), the moving of the Debian install worked without hitches (other than those covered in the blog), I did have to turn off DMA access to the replacement HD however, but I think that was purely because it was a really old school drive. The Squid proxy […]
Continue ReadingBeing the geek I am, I have a nasty habbit of setting something up and then thinking “OK, so it runs, but what would happen if…“, and I then go on to think about the most unlikely, impossible, worse-case senario and try to figure a way around it. The latest case of this occured 2 […]
Continue ReadingContinuing with the theme of broken backup servers (oh boy am I having fun this week) I decided it may be worth giving a short explanation of how to clone or move a Linux install from one hard drive to another (note I’m not talking about two completely identical machines. If this were the case, […]
Continue ReadingI just finished rebuilding the backup server, and I discovered something new about Linux which I didn’t know (although I did assume it was possible). I’d tried googling for the answer to this question without avail, so I’ve blogged it here to hopefully answer the question for someone else in my same situation. The problem […]
Continue ReadingI just had the enjoyment of performing an autopsy on our backup server, arguably the most important machine on the network, responsible for the retreival and archiving of the filesystems from all the other servers. As I opened the case it was immediately obvious what had happened, an intruder had broken in and hacked the […]
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