Here’s a little tidbit that I never knew until I had an Apache2 name-based virtual host problem: httpd -S lists the vhosts that are being served by Apache, and how they were parsed from the config files.

The output on one of my servers looks something like:

[root@web2 …

At $WORK, my group runs about two dozen servers that provide services for over 60,000 users. They’re a mix of Windows and Linux, with some old Solaris stuff thrown in there. The one thing they have in common is they’re all hand-built, hand-configured, and old. They’ve …

On the same thread as the last post, some thoughts on my ideal network, or the hosts on that network:

• One “gold master” installation/kickstart file of a single chosen distro, with a base set of packages, including site-specific packages. (or something like this implemented in a configuration management system …

After a few crazy weeks at work, the pay check is finally here, and I’ve decided to allocate some of the money to hardware upgrades of my personal machines. While Nagios gives me a good idea of where performance is a problem, I’m still running a large amount …