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Unable to use pvmove
I needed to remove a physical volume from a LVM volume group, and found this is done using the pvmove command. However, trying to run this, resulted in an immediate, and suprising error
# pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel
After some quick google’ing I found on this list a cause, and a [...]
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OhioLinux September 25-27, 2009
This years OhioLinux Fest starts tomorrow and runs until Sunday. I’ll be there. You should to. More info at the OhioLinux website
Connecting to serial devices with minicom
I’ve often found the need to break out the console cable to configure a router, switch, or other device that only had a serial console. On Windows, most folks fall back on the good old hyper terminal to get the job done. This works great, as long as your on Windows.
Since I’ve been getting myself [...]
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Asterisk with PRI support
If you’re going to be using Asterisk with a PRI card, there are some important steps you have to follow in the right order.
Normally, I install the zaptel package then install Asterisk. This is all great, until I need PRI support. For that, I must also install the libpri package.
Important to note, for [...]
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Subversion over SSH
Continuing with my exploration of using some form of version control to hand configuration file managent, I’ve been using svn over ssh.
Setting up svn access over ssh is a fairly stright forward process. The first set is to create the actual repo on the server.
mkdir /var/repo/configs
Then use svnadmin to create a repository in that directory.
svnadmin [...]
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Google Cheat Sheet
From the Google Help site: “Here’s a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search.” Doesn’t provide any new information, but it’s a nice refresher one basic search operators.
You can find the site here, and the rest of Googles help is here.
43Folders on managing email
I was going to post today on why I think email has losts it’s appeal in the last few years. Instead, I’m going to share a very good series of posts with from another blog I’ve been reading lately online…
There is a nice series over at 43folders on managing your inbox. The series goes into [...]
Twitter client for Gnome
Found this today. Probably older news for most of us, but I’m a bit behind on some of the graphical appliactions for Gnome. It’s a twitter client for the Gnome desktop envirmont. Oddly enough, it’s named gtwitter. Info can be found at the project site here.
I’ve been using it for about two days now, and [...]
Twitter Hardy!
I have noticed the new cult phenomena is twitter, its caught like wild fire. I know I find my self waking up each and every day waiting to read some good tweets. What I would like to ask the audience is this, what has been your all time favorite tweets from any of your followers.
oh [...]
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Remote packet capture