System Administration
Tools for the toolbox
Wednesday, February 06, 2002
Outages happen. I know. I make them happen every now and then — it's part of being a system administrator. On the other hand, you want to avoid unscheduled outages. Doing so is called fault tolerance. It leads to high availability.
Last night I avoided an outage on my iMac by knowing just enough UNIX to send a SIGHUP to the Dock. It had stopped responding to mouse events.
5:59:41 PM #
categories: System Administration
This >48 hour outage has almost made up my mind for me. I'll be juggling the pros and cons tonight, but chances are I'll have 1) bought RCN cable modem service, 2) asked BestWeb to forward my e-mail to mac.com, 3) bought a domain via pairNIC, and 4) configured the firewalling rules on Mac OS X by tomorrow morning.
5:50:59 PM #
categories: System Administration
Connected to newdepot.bestweb.net. 220- We are currently suspending ftp services because of difficulties we are 220- having with our raid server. We are currently working to resolve this issue , 220- and ftp access will be re-instated as soon as we do. 220- 220- Thank you for your patience. 220 newdepot.bestweb.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
4:21:40 PM #
categories: System Administration
