Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-12 Thread Justin Ellison
Using /proc/mounts is a little better for machine readability rather than parsing the output of 'mount'. The only way I can think of to identify the actual root device (from the kernel perspective) is by interrogating the kernel command line. You can find that in /proc/cmdline. Identifying the b

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for keeping notes?

2012-03-22 Thread Justin Ellison
Notational Velocity + Dropbox works great for me. Lightweight, keyboard shortcuts for everything, awesome search. Justin On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Folks, > > I was in a meeting yesterday, taking notes on a pad of paper, while my > compatriot was typing notes into

Re: [lopsa-tech] Centralized Switch Management

2011-07-28 Thread Justin Ellison
I've never used it, but have heard good things about it: http://redmine.nocproject.org/projects/noc/wiki Justin On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote: > As we are moving forward we are having to do more and more > configuration to our switches to enable different things.

[lopsa-tech] FreeIPA Opinions?

2011-06-21 Thread Justin Ellison
I finally had some time to download and install Fedora 15 on a VM and installed FreeIPA. Holy cow, is that a nice web-based interface they have going for them -- if you haven't seen it in the last year or so, you owe it to yourself to take a look. Is anyone out there using this in production? An

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

2011-01-14 Thread Justin Ellison
I posted a similar question to lopsa-discuss a few months back - here's the link to the thread: https://lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-August/005872.html Only the case of Oracle buying Sun could produce far fewer customers and far more profit :/ Justin On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Roy McM

Re: [lopsa-tech] Overhauling front end

2010-11-04 Thread Justin Ellison
Inline: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 11/3/2010 6:32 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Paul Graydon wrote: >> >>> I'm facing an interesting challenge at the moment.  Our Apache httpd >>> based load balancers are starting to show signs of strain.  Nothing t