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Recent Articles:
3.2v4.2
System Recovery
Disclaimer I was called in recently to help with the recovery of an old SCO 3.2v4.2
system that had crashed. The crash had initially been caused by a power supply
failure, but after replacing that hardware, the machine would not boot - it just
hung after the kernel i/o buffers message. As a common cause for that is simply
a missing or damaged inittab, I thought we might be able to fix it by booting
from floppies and doing a manual repair. Unfortunately, there were no emergency
boot floppies.
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Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Software RAID
Read the Disclaimer Logical Volume Manager is now included with most Linux distributions.
The RedHat 8.0 installer even allows you to create LVM volumes during initial
install. LVM offers capabilities previously only found in expensive products like
Veritas.
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Why
Production servers shouldn't have external interfaces
Read the Disclaimer People sometimes want to use their application servers as
firewalls. This seems attractive at first glance: slap in another network card,
add some packet filtering, tighten the system down a bit and connect it to the
outside world. Cheap and quick, but a very bad idea.
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Too many messages for Outlook Express
Read the Disclaimer Recently one of my Mitel SME Server clients took two weeks
off. When he returned, Outlook Express told him he had 23,000 messages waiting
on the server! Unfortunately, Outlook Express couldn't bring any of those messages
to his PC; it just hung.
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