Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?
Sunday, May 31
I Think It May Just Be Time For A Reboot
18:25:45 up 518 days, 12:28
I've had servers run that long before, or nearly so, but that's not bad. But it is starting to show some odd errors - lost database connections, errors starting threads, that sort of thing - that just haven't happened before.
If it gets any worse I'll reboot the server, but first I'll see about getting everything set up on Akane.
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Bleh, Foo
Connection to database lost?
It's not supposed to do that -
ever.
Don't know why it's decided to fall apart right now. Maybe it knows I'm setting up the new server today.
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Monday, May 25
You Know What's Cool?
We're virtualised now. I'll never have to do another messy server move. When we get the next server (which could be quite a while, since Akane has a much better upgrade path than our previous servers), all I need to do is set up OpenVZ (or Virtuozzo) on the new system, copy the container across, and then on the day of the move, stop the old container, do an rsync update, and start it up on the new server.
A few things broke because of CPanel overwriting configuration files, or version changes of underlying software, or moving from 32-bit to 64-bit. Next time, none of that will happen.
Really!
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So mee.nu is on the new hardware now, too?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 26 2009 01:00 AM (+rSRq)
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Not yet, probably next weekend.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, May 26 2009 01:46 PM (PiXy!)
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I don't remember if I'm still on the mu.nu servers, or if I'm a munuvian on the mee.nus, but either way if there were glitches, I sure didn't notice!
Nicely done, Papa Pixy!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, May 27 2009 08:45 AM (eXdIs)
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Sunday, May 17
Just An Observation
The CPanel installer is as crazy as a bedbug.
It actually works four times out of five. But reading the log files it creates will give you the impression that not only has it failed, it's crashed your server and the two adjacent servers and set the rack on fire.
Update: It installs 2.6GB of stuff. Or in one case, 3.1GB. I'm reinstalling that one.
My favourite part of the whole install process is this:
!! If you want to create a support ticket with cPanel regarding this please reference 'BuildAP Report Id': '2035297' !!
Stopping portmap: [FAILED]
inetd: no process killed
Shutting down kernel logger: [PASSED]
sendmail: no process killed
open3: exec of /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim stop failed at ./install line 1049
open3: exec of /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim start failed at ./install line 1049
open3: exec of /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd start failed at ./install line 1049
If you are getting an "undefined catalog error", please run:
Found hostname to be azusa.mu.nu, which resolves to 174.37.121.36
initfpsuexec: using apache 2.x support
error reading information on service proftpd: No such file or directory
error reading information on service exim: No such file or directory
error reading information on service cpanel: No such file or directory
error reading information on service bandmin: No such file or directory
Starting sshd: [ OK ]
Cannot open /etc/chkserv.d at /scripts/restartsrv_exim line 99.
What this means is that the main install has completed succsessfully and it's now configuring Apache and PHP.
But you knew that already, right? After all, if
you wanted to indicate success, a string of neon-green boldface messages that use the word "failed" four times and "error" five times would be your first choice.
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Absolutely! Error messages are red. Green means everything is fine. Donchaknow?
(Bug? As part of making that joke, I tried to make the word "red" be red by using the editor gizmo. The code it generated put a "font" tag on that string, but it's like this:
<font face="">red</< SPAN>font>
Which doesn't do anything. Meanwhile, after entering that quote, now my formatting really is loused up. This text looks blue.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 17 2009 02:54 PM (+rSRq)
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No, that didn't come through right. Oh, well. You're busy with other things right now anyway.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 17 2009 02:54 PM (+rSRq)
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Normal
RedBlueGreenNormal
Posted by: Old Grouch at Sunday, May 17 2009 04:33 PM (FZKGS)
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Worked for me.
Highlight the text you want to color, click the
A button, editor inserts
“span style="color: rgb(x,y,z );"†tag ahead
and
“/ span†tag behind.
Also tried it the "other" way (no text selected, click
A, select color, type text, click
A, select black), and it still generates span style tags (but they don't get closed as elegantly).
Posted by: Old Grouch at Sunday, May 17 2009 04:56 PM (FZKGS)
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I know how to do it. It just didn't work.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, May 17 2009 11:18 PM (+rSRq)
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Didn't mean to imply you didn't know how, was just curious if that was how you tried to do it.
Because it appears that color can also be set using the "styles & formatting" button, which (1) I've never used except to specify fonts, and (2) I see only in the post editor, not the comment editor. (I gather what displays for the editors is somewhat browser dependent: When mee.nu first came online, I didn't have any editing buttons for comments (although I did for posts). The comment buttons appeared a couple of months later when Pixy upgraded some of the tools/widgets.)
Posted by: Old Grouch at Monday, May 18 2009 03:52 AM (N7blS)
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Pixy, bug at my site? This post.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 19 2009 02:08 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 19 2009 02:08 PM (+rSRq)
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Something I noticed that may or may not be a bug.
When I go to browse my templates, at the bottom I get the << Page 1 >> widget showing up. I can click the right arrow, get to Page 2, and it's all the same stuff. Go to Page 3, it's all the same again. It looks like I can just keep clicking forever and I see the same thing over and over again.
Posted by: Will at Thursday, May 21 2009 04:11 PM (RMeRQ)
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That's a buglet, anyway.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 22 2009 01:37 AM (PiXy!)
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LOL, don't forget the dots and pluses as status indicators. That's by far the best bit of a cPanel install. I mean, seriously, who wouldn't like this:
Optimizing vps...+..++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++............................++++++++++++++++++++++++..+....+.++.+.+....+.+.+...+...+...++.+.+.+..++..+.+....+...+....+..++.++..+....+.+++..++++++....+....+...+.....+......++.........+.+.....+......+...++......+.+.....+...++....+..+...+...+...++...++++++..+...+++++.++++.++++..++..+.++........................................++++++++............+..++...+.......+.......+++++++++++.....+.+++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...............................++...............................++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.++.......................++++++++++++++++++
It explains EXACTLY what it is doing. BRILLIANT!
The messages you mentioned only appear in the log file, if you're smart enough to tail it. Which I always do.
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Tuesday, May 12
Speed For Need
Akane, the new mu.nu/mee.nu hyperserver, is as fast as 100,000 PDP-11/70's.
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I'm dating myself horrendously by saying "your dating yourself by commenting on that speed difference".
Posted by: Andrew at Wednesday, May 13 2009 01:02 AM (ZonkY)
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Sunday, May 10
A Big mu.nu Welcome
To Akari, Azusa, and Kodachi!
Akari is a quad-core system with 6GB of RAM; Azusa and Kodachi are dual-core systems with 4GB of RAM. All running CentOS 5.3 64-bit and CPanel. They'll be taking over duties from Midori and Sakura.
Next up are Nabiki and Kasumi. Nabiki is a quad-core system with 4GB of RAM and a dedicated SSD; it's our new database server. Kasumi is our replication server, to couple our data extra-double-safe. It's a one-and-a-half core system with 1GB of RAM.
Yeah.
As that last might have alerted you, these are not real, physical, stuff-you-can-kick servers, they're virtual servers under OpenVZ. It takes about seven seconds to create a new server, but it took about five hours to get all the configuration settings correct* and install CPanel.**
Took a little reading to get up to speed on all the commands and options, but I'm saving about $2500 a year by not paying for the pretty user interface of Virtuozzo, and for $2500 I'm willing to do a little reading.
* At one point I had Akari, Azusa, and Kodachi running with 30% and 20% of a CPU - rather than 30% and 20% of the total number of CPUs. That was a leetle slow.** CPanel's installation takes a while at the best of times. It takes about five whiles if you've accidentally restricted your server to only use one-fifth of one processor.
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I'm a little surprised that you can't take an existing virtual server and clone it.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, May 11 2009 12:24 AM (+rSRq)
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You can... Mostly.
Some of the utilities to do that don't want to install on 64-bit Linux. Which is retarded, because that's probably 90% of the people who would be using them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 11 2009 10:27 AM (PiXy!)
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Aha. You can indeed do it without the missing tools, thought it's a bit circuitous.
You need to copy the directory containing the VPS you want to clone to a new directory with the ID number of the new VPS. Then you need to likewise copy the config file, and assign it the appropriate hostname and IP address.
Then... Um, then you're done. Not all that circuitous after all.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 11 2009 05:19 PM (PiXy!)
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Thursday, May 07
Joy In The Early Evening
We blew up a high-end Intel SSD at my day job today. That isn't supposed to happen.
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Do you mean "Crap, the drive died" blew up or "Umm, there are pieces of what used to be a HDD in what used to be a server" blew up?
Posted by: ReallyBored at Thursday, May 07 2009 01:33 AM (aGZBd)
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I mean, "I'm pretty sure the data centre was here yesterday" blew up.
...
Well, actually, it just spontaneously developed about thirty million bad sectors. In the middle of restructuring our production database. Had to drag everything back from the replica.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 07 2009 01:52 AM (PiXy!)
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I blame it on the lack of sun spots... we had something along those lines happen with one of our production servers recently. Scared the crap out of my boss. heh. (thank heaven I wasn't in Chicago or it might've been me there for the spectacular failure *grin*)
Posted by: Teresa at Friday, May 08 2009 02:20 PM (ybEr8)
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Ah, I see you were visited by Charming Monkey Girl too. Personally, I found her way too talky and downright pushy.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, May 08 2009 05:40 PM (xqpbD)
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Yeah, banning her now. Just had an exploding server at work and a DMCA complain against one of the forums I host, what feels like a mild case of food poisoning, and about a six-month sleep deficit slowing me down...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 09 2009 12:18 AM (PiXy!)
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Four sightings at my place (unusual!) at 0617, 0625, 0633, 0641 GMT. Will just delete.
Can't be said enough: REALLY appreciate what you do!
Posted by: Old Grouch at Saturday, May 09 2009 12:25 AM (8vPcQ)
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Removed, banned, and all cleaned up.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 09 2009 12:33 AM (PiXy!)
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