Daily Archives: June 19, 2007

Small steps

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I got the UPS monitoring working by adding the following line to my /etc/sysconfig/ups: OPTIONS=”-a evolution” I logged a bugzilla bug for the problems I’m having with “at” and “batch”.

Posted in Geekery, Revelation | Comments Off

Not something I expected to see in my messages log

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Jun 19 09:12:54 allhats atd[31131]: Open of jobfile failed: Success WTF?

Posted in Geekery, Rant | 1 Comment

So far so good

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

The upgrade went as well as can be expected. The libata business didn’t cause too much trouble. Most of the entries in /etc/fstab used labels rather than device names, so I only had to fix the entries for the swap … Continue reading →

Posted in Geekery, Revelation | 1 Comment

Wish me luck

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I’ve decided it’s time to upgrade my home server from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 7. I tried upgrading from the DVD, and for some reason it was complaining about a lack of partition table on /dev/sda and /dev/sdc. … Continue reading →

Posted in Geekery, Revelation | Comments Off

My guilty secret

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I have a secret to admit. I still like Pro Tour cycle racing. I try to talk about my secret to friends who used to listen to me, and they all say that after Floyd Landis tested positive, they lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Bike Racing, Revelation | 4 Comments