I had a failure of my Cacti system over the weekend, entirely caused by bad Gentoo emerges. Two different problems, both caused by bad upgrades of packages brought in from ~amd64 or ~x86, made Cacti colourfully dysfunctional for a couple of days.The first was an update to the spine resource poller, part of the Cacti … Continue reading Sometimes, Gentoo bites
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I'm running Debian on a Linksys NSLU2 storage device, and it works really well in general. So well in fact that a lot of the time I forget the thing is even there! It's sitting in the garage minding its own business, serving out video and music files, and storing backups of the other systems … Continue reading When Upgrades Go Wrong
I like Gentoo Linux, but sometimes I find it's not really applicable for some of what I'm using it for. Like my main server. This machine is one of the two machines at my place that just HAVE to work (the firewall/phone server is the other), and there's been a few instances recently where Gentoo has let … Continue reading Gentoo Linux wastes a bit more of my life
Crossed Wires 