The Week of Mine.
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issaferretSo I've been real tired recently - work revved up and hasn't stopped, and I've been wanting to take a sick day for recoup for a while. I think I might finally do that tomorrow.
In any case, among the Big Things coming down the tube are: We're getting a new environment for our appservers and webservers - 25 new systems, most likely Sun's relatively shiny Opteron-based servers.
The Big Thing there is that currently best expectation is that they'll be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That means that I get to take most of what I've learned in the last 8.5 years and pitch it out the window, and spend some time learning Linux. I'm not going to wait for that to come to me; I'm already working on standing up my old desktop as a CentOS server (CentOS is a clone of RHEL with all the labels removed, so I'll get a reasonable facsimile of the environment).
My additional hope is that I can get something that does Remote Desktop Protocol and a Linux version of the Cisco VPN client, and actually not have to go back to Windows when I'm on call. No real hope there, but hey, might happen.
<lj-cut text="Good Neighbors (The Good Life)> Becky brought Good Neighbors home with her from work. It's somewhat absurd, but less angsty than the standard stuff we get nowadays here in America. British sitcom, concept is that a working man of 40 decides he'd rather become self sufficient than deal with working at his dead-end job. His indefatigable wife buys off on it. However, they don't want to move to the country, so they take their house and start setting up a farm in the middle of a suburban residential district. Amusing. </lj-cut>
In any case, among the Big Things coming down the tube are: We're getting a new environment for our appservers and webservers - 25 new systems, most likely Sun's relatively shiny Opteron-based servers.
The Big Thing there is that currently best expectation is that they'll be running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That means that I get to take most of what I've learned in the last 8.5 years and pitch it out the window, and spend some time learning Linux. I'm not going to wait for that to come to me; I'm already working on standing up my old desktop as a CentOS server (CentOS is a clone of RHEL with all the labels removed, so I'll get a reasonable facsimile of the environment).
My additional hope is that I can get something that does Remote Desktop Protocol and a Linux version of the Cisco VPN client, and actually not have to go back to Windows when I'm on call. No real hope there, but hey, might happen.
<lj-cut text="Good Neighbors (The Good Life)> Becky brought Good Neighbors home with her from work. It's somewhat absurd, but less angsty than the standard stuff we get nowadays here in America. British sitcom, concept is that a working man of 40 decides he'd rather become self sufficient than deal with working at his dead-end job. His indefatigable wife buys off on it. However, they don't want to move to the country, so they take their house and start setting up a farm in the middle of a suburban residential district. Amusing. </lj-cut>
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Date: 2006-06-02 02:37 am (UTC)i have never used jumpstart. booting with intel hardware is sadly more hands-on than sparc hardware. no "reboot -- net install". when i go to install a fresh machine, i have to (ew) manually configure the bios and then hit f12 to boot from the net.
the volume of value to be found in /proc is truly astounding.
tcpdump has some really cool features that snoop does not. okay, the whole gnu set of tools has some really cool features that the solaris version does not. (but recently the part where tcpdump will let you dump from all interfaces but snoop appears to only want to dump from one at a time stunned me. my firewall is fw-1 on a netra running solaris.) linux sysadmins seem substantially more likely than solaris sysadmins to use open source utilities. but linux sysadmins are much more likely than solaris sysadmins to work for shoestring dot-coms like mine.
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Date: 2006-06-02 02:59 pm (UTC)I expected that kickstart would be less fun than Jumpstart. I'm tempted to push for Ghost if I can.
I remember /procs unearthly data content. Just need to remember where to find things in it now.
I discovered tcpdump about the same time as snoop and have felt very constrained ever since. Similarly, truss and strace are very evenly matched.
I think the shoestring budget part might be what attracts our upper management; apparently the head-honcho has a screaming hate on for software maintenance costs.
Having set up my home system now, I need to get ahold of a copy of the Cisco VPN client for linux and try it out; it'd be nice to not have to go back to Windows when I'm on call.