Strav's blog

Occasionally I get errors during the apt-get upgrade process. Here's a simple solution to one - the 'file or dir already exists' error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/package (--install):   trying to overwrite 'file/dir', which… more »

OK - I went ahead and set up the other 3 DNS sites as secondary servers. I had a bit of trouble with vcsweb, (strav.com, strav.net, and egiveit.com showed errors, but zilliox.us didn't even though they were all set up the same). I sent an e-mail to sup… more »

OK - Back to the DNS issues for my zones. After jumping through hoops at the "Public DNS" (granitcanyon), I've spent over a week making nameserver changes to whois and mucking around with settings within Zoneedit. I've made some progress, but not nearl… more »

Yet another thing that drives me nuts about XP. I'm sick of having to tell the system over and over that I actually DO want to run the program that I just executed. This will prevent that dialog box from popping up every time you try to run a new file… more »

Ack!!!! I finally figured out why udev wasn't working on the laptop. It turns out that the symlink I made from the /etc/udev/rules.d directory to the network.rules file was named 010_network_rules. That '_' before the 'rules' in the symlink needed to… more »

Doing a chroot with udev is a little trickier than it was before udev. Here are the steps: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/linux/boot mount -t none /dev /mnt/linux/dev -o bind chroot /mnt/linux/boot mount /proc mount /sys more »

Well, the last two evenings have been interesting. It's been difficult getting to the server from the internet due to ongoing DDOS attacks on the nameservers (ns2.zoneedit.com and ns3.zoneedit.com). I'm going to check into what is involved in adding a… more »

I recently had a need to duplicate some directory structures - not the files within the directories - just the directory tree itself. Rather than sifting through and spending hours trying to recurse through the directories by hand, I went to work findin… more »

After finding out first hand just how easy it is to hack into wireless networks - yes, even networks with WEP on, I decided to take steps to make it more difficult to connect to my network. The first step was to get a router which would handle the newer… more »

Well, I'm tired of investing a lot of time working on resolving some sort of sysadmin issue then either not documenting it or not being able to remember quite where it is documented. So, I finally got around to setting up blogging software so I can have… more »