Monthly Archives: June 2009

monit, mongrel_rails and ENV["HOME"]

Posted on June 28, 2009 by ward

So your mongrels are humming along happily and you have monit monitoring them with a definition like this: check process mongrel_8010 with pidfile /path/to/current/log/mongrel.8010.pid start program = “/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C /path/to/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml –clean –only 8010″ stop program = “/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Monticello municipal fiber now really a go

Posted on June 23, 2009 by ward

I wrote about Monticello, Minnesota and its fight with the local incumbent telco TDS last fall. At the time, TDS had its lawsuit against the city thrown out for lack of merit. No big surprise, since the gist of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadband | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

df and zettabytes

Posted on June 23, 2009 by ward

This is a very confused filesystem. But check it out – df supports zettabytes! # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 19G -64Z 22G 101% / Surprisingly, the machine is up and runs just fine.

Posted in Sysadmin | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

on the G1′s bluetooth support

Posted on June 19, 2009 by ward

I got a G1 the other day, and have it upgraded to android 1.5 (cupcake). Turns out the bluetooth abilities of this phone are rather … limited, particularly compared to my trusty nokia E70: G1: $ sdptool browse 00:22:A5:XX:XX:XX Browsing … Continue reading →

Posted in Android | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

IIS taking a nosedive

Posted on June 17, 2009 by ward

Netcraft’s June 2009 Web Server Survey is very interesting. Check out the IIS line on this graph (red): That sharp drop is a reduction from 29,049,223 (May) to 21,898,527 (June) active sites. Netcraft explains the drop like this: A reduction … Continue reading →

Posted in Everything else | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

on the importance of gem cleanup

Posted on June 16, 2009 by ward

I have a monit config that tries to stop/start mongrel instances like this: start program = “/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C path-to-mongrel_cluster.yml –clean –only PORT” stop program = “/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C path-to-mongrel_cluster.yml –clean –only PORT” I have the latest mongrel_cluster gem installed … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails, Sysadmin | Leave a comment

checking dns glue records

Posted on June 14, 2009 by ward

This is mostly a reminder to myself. Here’s a way to check a domain’s DNS glue records. For example, for google: dig +trace +nosearch +all +norecurse google.com

Posted in Sysadmin | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Jaunty’s stabilizing

Posted on June 12, 2009 by ward

A quick update on some of the bugs reported in my previous post bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope. The two most serious problems were atrocious Intel video performance, and ongoing sound issues. Thankfully, the Intel issues have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Software/Open Source | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment