Waiting Too Long To Upgrade
had related at Another Raid Failure that an initial attempt to rebuild the raid had failed, and left the story with fresh drives on order and winging their way toward us. The drives did arrive, but unfortunately the rebuild still failed. A Knowledge Base article suggested that there might be unreported problems on other elements of the array, with the suggested solution of blowing it all away and recreating from scratch. As we still had some suspicions about backups at that point, I didn't want to do that until we had unquestioned good recovery capability.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/1217.html
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12.17.04 |
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Another
RAID Failure
There
must be something in the air. I've had another RAID failure.
This time, it was a hardware RAID, specifically a seven
year old DPT controller (DPT was subsequently bought by
Adaptec).
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/1119.html
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11.19.04 |
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Getting
100% Network Uptime from Your Provider
When
your host is down, there's not much you can do but wait
and check to see if they've gone over the network downtime
written into the contract. Rackspace is a different kind
of managed hosting company.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/1111.html
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11.11.04 |
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The
HP-UX Kernel: Basic Organization
The
study of a modern operating system leads down many paths
and requires that we consider a number of different challenges
and their solutions. The HP-UX kernel is a multitasking,
multiuser, multiprocessor, multithreaded, load-leveling,
modular operating system with real-time scheduling extensions—to
list just the highlights. To support such capabilities
requires many levels of design abstraction, data tables,
and lists as well as a host of subsystems, drivers, and
dynamic modules.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/1021.html
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10.21.04 |
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Powerful
Unix And Linux Printing
Codehost's
latest version of BrightQ includes new and enhanced feature
functionality, and increased Linux distribution support
that combine to make this the most powerful Unix and Linux
printing suite available.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/1005.html
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10.05.04 |
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| VERITAS
Storage Management Offerings To Include Features For AIX
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Mandatory
open source 'too likely to fail' in government
Australia's
coalition government has ruled out mandating the use of
open-source software in the federal government, saying
such a move would stretch the industry's resources to
the point that the risk of a high-profile project failure
would be "unacceptably high".
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0907.html
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09.07.04 |
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Mixed results for SCO in IBM and Novell actions
The
SCO Group had mixed results last week in two separate
copyright actions brought against Linux distributors IBM
and Novell. SCO has accused IBM of breaching SCO’s rights
in the UNIX operating system, and Novell of a bad faith
effort to interfere with the same rights.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0615.html
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06.15.04 |
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Sun
aims to cut Unix costs
Sun
last week took steps to cut the cost of its products and
to further its efforts to become a more flexible IT all-rounder.
It unveiled plans to unite its Sparc server lines with
Fujitsu's, and said it will make its Solaris operating
system open source. The firm is also revamping hardware
and software lines with flexible pricing tariffs.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0608.html
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06.08.04 |
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Linux
Steals Share from UNIX in Database Market
Linux
siphoned market share from UNIX in the relational database
management system (RDBMS) market, a niche that grew 158
percent from $116 million in new license revenue in 2002
to nearly $300 million in 2003.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0601.html
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06.01.04 |
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| UNIX
Part 1 for OS X (Mac) |
SCO
cuts jobs to boost Unix business
SCO
has cut a small number of jobs last week in an effort
to push its Unix products group to profitability.
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said that less than 10% of
the 275 people employed by the company lost their jobs
last month.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0511.html
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05.11.04 |
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Using
LDAP to Manage Unix Accounts
User
management is one of the most tedious tasks in a systems
administrator's job. There have been some attempts to
centralize user management with NIS and NIS+. NIS fizzled
out because of its security holes, and NIS+ is not very
straightforward to configure. So, what's the best way
to centralize user management in an environment? The answer
is looking more and more like LDAP.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0427.html
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04.27.04 |
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Easy
Domain Migration To A New Unix Server
Switching
web providers or installing a new server entails migrating
all your domain's web pages and other files.
While we won't cover implementation and configuration
of a virtual domain here, as far as the web server is
concerned, we will, instead, focus on how to transfer
the files from your previous to your new server.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0323.html
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03.23.04 |
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Sun
and HP square up for Unix users
Sun
and Hewlett Packard (HP) are both rolling out migration
programmes targeting each other's Unix users.
HP has started the UK version of its Sun Eclipse programme,
aimed at migrating Solaris Unix users to Linux on Intel-based
HP hardware.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0304.html
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03.04.04 |
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Microsoft's
Services For Unix
Gosh,
you'd never expect me to say something pleasant about
a Windows machine, would you? Well, actually that's not
entirely true: I've been known to grudgingly admit that
while it isn't Unix, Windows XP Professional really isn't
awful. In fact, if you can live without Unixy stuff at
your beck and call, Windows XP is pretty good - there
are even things I actually LIKE about it.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0213.html
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02.13.04 |
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IBM
muscles up Unix midrange
IBM
has added a bit more muscle to a midrange mainstay in
its Unix server line.
The p655 server will now ship as an 8 processor box packed
with 1.7GHz Power4+ processors. IBM previously only offered
the p655 as an 8-way with 1.5GHz Power4+ chips. Overall,
customers should see a 20 percent performance improvement
with the new kit even though the price of the p655 will
stay the same.
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0130.html
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01.30.04 |
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Numeric
Unix Error Messages
It's
an unfortunate fact that many programmers are lazy about
error messages. Very often, all you get is a cryptic "Error
5", and you may be lucky to get that: sometimes all you
get is an error return that you have to examine yourself
with "echo $?". You can't even depend on that being the
actual Unix error, but even if it is, what does it mean?
http://www.unixpronews.com/2004/0116.html
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01.16.04 |
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