Well, due to limited resources on our old server, I had to buy a few new gadgets.
the case and the power supply did not arrive yet, but I picked up the first load yesterday.
Soon we will run our core system on this machine:
- 2.4ghz AMD 64 X2 EE (4600+ 65W) Processor
- 2gb Kingston DDR2-800 ECC CL5 Main Memory
- Asus M2R32-MVP, XPress 3200 (RD580) Mainboard
- 2 x 250gb WD Caviar RE (24/7) Harddisks (go into RAID1)
- Chenbro RM217 2U 19" Rack Case
- Seasonic SS-460H2U, 460W, 2U Server Power Supply
The base system will be Gentoo with a few Debian and Gentoo OpenVZ server.
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by marc ammann
@ 06.03.2007 02:17 CEST
well, I just had a nice experience with debian. besides many other things in debian which are really just crap, I found a hidden feature today..
first, read this..
5.5 /var/cache : Application cache data
5.5.1 Purpose
/var/cache is intended for cached data from applications.
Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation.
The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool,
the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between
invocations of the application and rebooting the system.
Files located under /var/cache may be expired in an application specific manner,
by the system administrator, or both. The application must always be able to recover
from manual deletion of these files (generally because of a disk space shortage).
No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache directories.
well, since I kind of know these rules by heart, I assumed, that at least there won't be any system critical data in /var/cache.. (damn guys of the holy-crappy-debian: do you even see it? CACHE!)
surprise surprise, I moved my /var today because of space problems, and yes, you guess right, I did not copy /var/cache.. why should I?
Now, where is my /var/cache/debonf folder and files?! hmm.. let's regenerate it.. oh, wait. from where?
there seems not to be a way to recover these files.. feel free to comment if you know a way.
I copied it from an other debian machine, actually an ubuntu machine and I hope it will work out for the moment..
well done, debian, well done..
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by marc ammann
@ 01.03.2007 20:50 CEST
If you haven't heard it from
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here || whereever else there is something about
liip, then you are probably not that much into webthings these days but anyway.. Bitflux and Mediagonal from Fribourg/Berne decided to go the same way with the same name - with very desirable colors..
not enough of news yet? (yes, here comes the crazy stuff) as the week has gone by, cablecom kinda set up the new line.. kinda? yes, kinda. they kinda forgot to set us up for 50% of the world.. but now, everything works as it should. crazy speed (100mbit) :) thanks a lot gassi!
