Ubuntu Pro & esm-apps: Universe repo getting curation?
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RAID1 farce2
At the end of the last post about my RAID1 farce, Michael Paoli had given great and brilliant advice on dealing with accessing the /var folder in the root file system after I’d mounted a RAID on top of it. Rick Moen, also of Bay Area LUG (BALUG) chimed in with an idea on their… Continue reading RAID1 farce2
RAID1 farce
Smug in my RAID1, laughing at impending disk failure, I see RAID is empty and uninitialized.
SysV init vs Systemd
Discussion turned to SysV init scripts vs Systemd, because that topic never gets old.
Impending disk failure
The “smartctl” daemon (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is warning of impending disk failure:
Device: /dev/bus/4 [megaraid_disk_01], SMART Failure: DATA CHANNEL IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH
2 ISPs, 1 routing table
Problem: have 2 ISPs – TekSavvy 60/6Mbps cable & Telus fibre – but server uses slower cable connection as default. Solution: edit routing tables. In the past, nmcli (Network Manager command line interface) was used to set the priorities of network interfaces, but that was half a decade ago and I forget how I did… Continue reading 2 ISPs, 1 routing table
Rewrite address (To:) of message in postfix’s email queue
If an email gets stuck in postfix’s deferred queue, there are a couple of ways to deal with it.
Chat Room & IRC
We’re on IRC and XMPP / Jabber too:
xmpp:chat@conference.bclug.ca?join
We’re set up on Libera IRC network, channel #bclug.
Mailing List
For general discussion, the “discuss” list:
https://lists.bclug.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Alternately, send an email to discuss-subscribe@lists.bclug.ca, then simply reply to the confirmation email message.