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Strange server behavior

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Earlier in the month, I noticed that for some reason server ‘auto backups’ were not occuring, with the last one being 20 Dec 2014.  Upon investigation, I found that not only could I not mount /dev/sdc/ , the backup drive,  but fdisk -l |grep Disk wouldn’t even list it.  So, I figured that the drive died, so I ordered another 2 TB drive.  I also ordered a spare 250GB IDE drive.

Yesterday, I was going to prep and replace /dev/sdc.  I found that after a reboot, the server not only recognized the backup drive, but its data seemed intact, with the exception of the last sys partition backup.  So, I immediately did another fresh, full sys partition backup.

Well, at least now, I have a spare 2GB data drive, as well as a spare 250GB boot drive (the current one is only 200GB) onsite.  Could have been worse, I imagine.  😉

 

Music News, Server Information

New bitrate and new radio show

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crab_radio_01It seems that CRAB is always about one step behind our sister station, QUACKHOUSE Radio.  I have decided to push the bitrate and sampling frequency from 32/16 to 64/22.  This is all in preparation of the Saturday night radio show resuming.  This should happen just after New Year’s day.  The format will be similar to the Saturday Night Trifectas that ended in Jan 2010.  I shall try to set up a podcast blog page to allow you to listen to the shows ‘after the fact’.

Computer - Linux, Server Information

‘NEW’ page now working on CRAB

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Got the NEW page working on the CRAB server……  It was more than likely a side effect of the Apache server upgrade somewhere around the Fedora 18 or 19 upgrade.  Here’s how I did it:

I became root user, then opened a terminal in the requests directory.

# nano .htaccess

Then, I put the following into the file:

Options +Includes
AddType text/html .html .shtml .txt
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html .shtml .txt

Saved the file, then restarted Apache as follows:

# systemctl restart httpd

That took care of it, but I think I shall try putting that .htaccess file in CRAB’s document root, as well as the main server document root.  I think that might be a better place for that file.  😀

Computer - Linux, Server Information

Yet another issue with Fedora 20. (This is getting old)

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Well, tonight, while trying to track down a firewall (I think) problem, I noticed that my messages log file, as well as all the other logs in /var/log/ were not being written, and were at 0 bytes.  Not very useful to tail.  So, I discovered that Fedora was moving away from rsyslog.  I was not happy.  So, I became root and:

# service rsyslog start

That took care of starting the logging back up, and to make sure that it starts after a reboot, I used nano to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and this is what I added towards the top of the file:

## Enable logging (Due to Fedora 20 suckiness)

service rsyslog start

THAT most definitely expresses my sentiment.  😉  I’m sure that uncovering these little issues is far from over, and all I can imagine is that Fedora is trying to ‘dumb down’ the OS to make it more like Windows, or Mac OS, in order to get a wider user base.  Might be what the average ‘Point and Click’ user wants, but NOT what I want.  Good thing that I’ve been at this game long enough to figure out how they are trying to tie my hands.  Well, now that I have the source port numbers, I can get back on the road to figuring out my problem, tomorrow.  😉