Ramblings

This is now my second entry from my apartment, but the big news is the fact that Gollum is now sitting right next to me here at the apartment. My father came up here Saturday afternoon and brought all sorts of goodies (routers, switches, and Gollum). It looks like the DNS entries are finally propagating around the net. If you are reading this, then your DNS server already has the updated entries. We had one unexpected occurance after moving the server. Gollum had not been restarted since I got the RAID array up and running (uptime of almost 90 days), so I didn’t realize when there was an unclean shutdown that the array would want to rebuild before you can access it. Well, all the home directories (except root’s) are on the array, as well as the web server files.

So Gollum was choking on bootup and we couldn’t figure out why. I decided to try booting into single user mode and what do you know, I was able to get in. I took the opportunity to remove everything I could think of from the default runlevel (so it would skip it on the next real boot). Once I did that, Gollum booted up normally, but when I tried to log in (as me, not root) it would just hang. Once I got in as root and poked around a bit I realized the array was rebuilding. At that point I theorized that once it was done we would be ok. An hour later, we were ok. I was able to access the array, and therefore, able to start up all the services that I had killed off.

Well, it appears things are working … now to go do something else …