I work as a Linux Sysadmin (among many other non-official titles) in a small group that mainly provides services. We run wireless and student computing labs across a whole campus, but other than that (and most of that) is just back-end systems - web servers, RADIUS, DHCP, etc. As a result …
more ...Just a short update… I know I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, but I hope to get back into the habit of doing so… or even making daily posts like I had wanted.
So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different - same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that …
more ...This question was posted both to the SAGE-members list (thread) and to ServerFault:
more ...Looking for some advice here, as my search has turned up to be pretty fruitless.
My group (9 people - SAs, programmers, and two network guys) is looking for some sort of web tool to… ahem… “facilitate …
I was recently reading an interesting article, “from tasks to assurances: redefining system administration”, by Alva L. Couch, in the April 2010 issue of ;LOGIN:. He makes a lot of good points, mainly that system administration has been defined by tasks, but should really be defined by assurances (a much …
more ...Well, I’ve spend the better part of the last week or so debugging a problem with out new Xen VMs (on one host) not getting DHCP leases. Since our DHCP servers (ISC DHCPd 3.0.6) are using Brian Masney’s LDAP patch (which has recently been included in …
more ...Recently at $WORK we’ve been having some strange issues with a particular Xen VM not getting DHCP. Traditional (tail -f dhcpd.log) debugging hasn’t turned up much, other than the server is getting the DISCOVER but not sending out an OFFER. I’ve turned to packet captures to …
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