There appears to have been a power failure causing a brief outage of the dhoytt.com site. This power outage affected the entire area. I didn’t have my UPS engaged due to replacing the batteries and I haven’t had time to finish that project yet.
It has been that type of Friday I’ll discuss more on another post since I will stick to one issue on this post. Anyway I didn’t notice that the systems had rebooted since I was very busy working and when I came in the house I didn’t do my normal due diligence of logging into my site and checking the various pages.
The only system that didn’t come back right away by itself was my music server evven thou my music blog site was up the sounds were not there. I’ll get working on that batch file soon so that in another event like this occurs when the music server comes back up if will login and commence to playing the music and starting the multiple elements it takes to get the music streaming when the UPS isn’t in place.
Well I gave been doing this 24/7 since 2004 so that’s one of the two longest times I have been without music even though the rest of the site was up.
I also had to fix some tables in my database that I use for my blogging software.
I used the “-r” option to resize
the underlying filesystem with the “lvextend” command for the
first time. The “-r” option allowed the logical volume &
filesystem to be extended with just one command. I saw the “-r” switch there on the man page and decided to try it!
To top it off the partition I extended
was my root “/” partition. The man page says that the “-r”
option calls the “fsadm” command to extend or resize the
filesystem.
What caused me to use this option was
that I just did a fresh install of one of my Fedora Linux systems
that has served alternately as a game server, web server, backup
server. Currently in this iteration it will take over as my new game
server. I have all of my files in two logical volumes on a separate
physical drive from my OS drive so that I will not have to worry
about data files I don’t wish overwritten during OS installs or I can
just take that drive to the next server I build and manually mount it
on that new server.
The drive of course is using LVM and
is its own volume group so that information is on the drive is
imported easily into LVM. I have two logical volumes on this physical
drive within the volume group..
One logical volume I mount to /home
and the other to /usr/local/games. These logical volumes have files I
have downloaded to various home directories and working files &
binaries for the games I host on my servers.
I didn’t include this extra physical
drive that I store my data on as a target during the fresh Fedora 14
install, so I needed to unmount the /home that was created with the
install and then mount my logical volume that holds data for my home
directories I mount on “/home/” and game data which I mount on
“/usr/local/games/”.
The reason I ended up extending my “/”
partition was that I didn’t pay attention to how much space the
installation of Fedora 14 was giving “/home” or “/”. I
didn’t even intend for the install to make the “/home” a separate
partition but oh well it did and I needed the space the install
allocated for “/home” to move to “/”.
I won’t speak about partition sizing
and the reasoning’s for that since I started getting really liberal
with that with the partitions I used to be strict on since drives are
so large now.
Anyway not a big deal to those of you
who may have used this “-r” feature before but I never have, even
with HP-UX. I truthfully don’t know if HP-UX has the “-r” switch
for the lvextend command something I’ll research and find out later
since the person who was bringing by my HP-UX box hasn’t brought it
by yet.
Normally you would do the “lvextend”
and then use the “resize2” command which doesn’t take long but
its always nice to use the least amount of commands.
Anyway this is what I did:
Logged in as root in “gdm”
(Gnome Xwindows) after commenting out the “root” user lines in
/etc/pamd.d/gdm & etc/pamd.d/gdm-password. I know, not what you
are supposed to do but I didn’t feel like rebooting and wanted
multiple windows up.
Killed the processes that were
still running on /home
fuser -ku /home (didn’t work)
lsof /home (showed pid)
kill -9 “pid”
unmout /home
vgdisplay -v|more (showed my vg
that was on my physical drive)
Since its “/” it will not
unmout but perform an online filesystem extension even if you
answer “no’.
That was it in a nutshell, took much
longer to write this post! This is just my story of a new switch I
found and decided to play with if you decide to try this please if
your system or data is valuable back it up and do your research for
your environment! Make sure you have the online LVM packages etc. if
you want to do an online filesystem extension. As they say mileage
will vary!
LVM is different for HP-UX than with
Linux and a bit different on other UNIX systems as well so I couldn’t
find the command to see if the physical extents were concurrent but I
suspect they are not. Just an FYI. You know please post, I ran out of
time tonight and didn’t look much further.
This isn’t meant to be a tutorial but
if you have any question please ask! Maybe I’ll clean this up at a
later time and present it in more of a tutorial fashion with better
explanations but its time for me to go to bed!
Man how verbose no wonder I don’t
post as much as I should!
Grant High of Sacramento of which I’m an alumni plays Folsom High School from Folsom tonight with their number 1 state ranking and number 4 national ranking on the line!
Grant is a little beat up but the Pacers always fight to the finish!
Looking to go back to the State championship after missing out last year!
I’ll keep you posted headed to the game now!
Game is @ Sacramento State!
Oh yes I did and to all of you De La Salle folks from the Bay I really did mean number 1 in Northern Cali!
I was logging into my blog trying to see what’s going on and make a post into the “Snakeice Radio House of Beats Blog” here on my site and was able to login but then kicked out as if mu session had expired.
The first thing I did of course was go to the syslog and there I saw some “audispd: queue is full” message. This took me down the path to look at the “audispd” daemon and then Selinux. I tested and it didn’t seem that Selinux was preventing login and the audit log files didn’t show any lock outs even though the messages are annoying maybe these two utilities were not the issue.
Well I then looked in the mysqld.log and there it listed the issue plain as can be ” [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table ‘./mtdb/mt_session’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired”! I thenwent to MySQL administrator and repaired the table and all is well.
I’ll come back and take care of the “audispd: queue is full – dropping event” error messages later, right now I have to go outside and do yard work while its day time my original plan of action today until I couldn’t stay logged into my blogs.
Made some delicious drinks over the weekend with this new liqueor Ty-Ku its a light liquor and it seems to mix nicely with a wide variety.
I mixed it with some Remy Ma VSOP Cognac to make something they call Godzilla. Even made what they called an Asian Mojito!
Tonight I wanted something light to sip and started to make a nice neat traditional martini but then mixed some Ty-Ku, Grey Goose Citron, Bombay Gin and mint leaves from my garden shook it up in the shaker with some ice and it it is delicious!
Only issue is its Monday so will not be able to indulge too much but this weekend I’ll be sipping more! Now just trying to find things to fill my bar out and give a lot of options when people stop by.
That and a quick dip in the pool in the night about 9 pm PDT after Monday Night Football worked just fine to relax me with some cool a$$ music on my site @ http://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/
That’s right the number 4 ranked team in the nation per two different polls relating to high school football teams in the Grant Pacers of Sacramento are playing the Folsom Bulldogs in Folsom tonight. Folsom is ranked number 2 in the Greater Sacramento region with the Grant Pacers being number 1 in the Sacramento Region.
Grant has the longest running tradition of excellence in football in the area with people who went to the school as far back as the 1930’s still attending home games.
This being my high school alma mater I will of course be watching the game on ESPN2 the only reason I will not be there in person is that I was too busy to get tickets and with my schedule I would have been struggling to get to Folsom after work.
All I have to say is GO GRANT PACERS!!! Then to the tune of the chant that Snoop heard when the Grant Pacers beat his alma mater Long Beach for the California state championship 2 years ago and ironically used in his song “I Wanna Rock”…….. PACERS….PACERS…PACERS …….. PACERS….PACERS…PACERS …….. PACERS….PACERS…PACERS …….. PACERS….PACERS…PACERS
Had a power outage today and I was away
from the office but everything came back online by itself except the
music didn’t begin streaming. The cause of the power outage I am
guessing is the street construction about a block away. I have not
been told that the construction is officially the cause of the power
outage so I will have to check sources later but its my guess.
I will have to design a batch script
for the various components of the music to come up in proper order
once the system is rebooted for my music server since this is the
only system that didn’t restart the software I use properly. When I
get a chance I will test it on my backup music server. The challenge
will be automating the music stream start and encoders.
My Linux boxes that host my web
servers & game servers appear to have come back and executed the
start-up scripts just fine, the server that streams the music is on
Windows.
Been falling behind in my posts about
running and Vibram five Finger KSO’s, and I’m here to report the runs
have been going well even with my gardening and other home projects
and getting used to another schedule!
I have been running intervals and as
stated earlier that put a new type of stress on the calves and I
think I’m finally almost out of the discomfiture that caused mostly.
The thing about it running shorter
interval distances trying for speed really gets you up on your toes
and the balls of your feet more than the 5k’s & 10k’s. Especially
once you wind down to doing anything under 400 meters! Being on your
toes and forefront of your feet really stretch calves and ligaments
in a way not used before in the typical running shoe circa now!
I also strange enough noticed that with
the VFF’s (Vibram Five Fingers) my toe nails are growing out! Let me
explain.
I was on the back end of doing the end
of my interval workouts a week or two ago and I noticed as I got up
on my toes I felt a weird pulling sensation as my feet gripped the
ground, my toe nails!
Before in umm … ahem what passes for
normal running shoes my toe nails took a beating and rarely grew out
especially the toes right next to my big toe which are the same
length and maybe a tad longer than my big toe. In fact my toes right
next to the big daddy toe always had crunched up bloody looking toe
nails that were about 1/8th of an inch thick.
This is the first time I could ever
recall having intact regular sized toe nails that weren’t, half off
or mutant looking. Another unexpected benefit of running in VFF’s
barefoot minimalist style!
Next up is a 10k this coming Sunday at
the first annual Natomas Mayday run here in Sacramento California
right here in my neighborhood utilizing part of my normal road
course. How exciting!
I’m signed up and not totally in the
shape I want but ready to go come on out and join us and run part of
my course!
Going to be cruising in my VFF KSO’s on
this run as well of course!
Oh yes in case you are confused even
though I have discomfort getting used to the VFF’s it is well worth
it my running has become more efficient and the only discomfort are a
little getting used to the calves doing the job they were meant to do
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