http://systemsadmin.info Site News daily 1 2005-09-20T18:45:39Z http://systemsadmin.info/linux/news/explore-the-linux-memory-model Want to know more about the workings of the Linux memory model? This article will give you a good introduction to the segment control unit and the paging models as well as a detailed look at the physical memory zone. No publisher chris 2006-01-25T14:00:55Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/databases/news/how-to-set-up-database-replication-in-mysql Here is a handy tutorial for those that would like to use MySQL's replication functionality. No publisher chris 2006-01-16T19:54:11Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/Members/chris/newsposts/comparison-of-nfs-vs-others Here is a handy reference on linux-nfs.org that compares most of the commonly available network filesystems against each other. NFSv3/NFSv4/CIFS/DAFS/WebDAV/etc... It is fairly brief, but provides a handy overview. No publisher chris 2006-01-03T00:41:26Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/Members/chris/newsposts/netbsd-3-released The NetBSD team have released NetBSD 3.0. "NetBSD 3.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in stability, performance, networking, security, also includes support for two new platforms (iyonix and hp700), and many new peripherals." No publisher chris 2005-12-27T20:19:15Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/case-study-consolidating-the-sun-store-onto-sunfire-t2000-servers Sun has published a Blueprint describing their efforts to consolidate their online store onto the SunFire T2000 platform. No publisher zts 2005-12-14T14:26:04Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/Members/chris/newsposts/time-management-for-system-administrators Thomas A. Limoncelli, the author of "The Practice of System and Network Administration", has just released a new book, "Time Management for System Administrators". Even better, he has released a 43 minute video presenting important aspects of time management from the book. This video is available for free. No publisher chris 2005-12-14T14:28:13Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/sun-cluster-is-free Sun has been going mad lately (in a good way!) and releasing a lot of its products for free. Solaris 10, obviously, and just recently Sun Studio 11, Java Enterprise System and N1 Software were announced as being free. And as part of all that, a move which surprised many, is the release of Sun Cluster 3 at no cost as well. This is great news for those looking for high quality, enterprise grade, high-availability solutions. Ben Rockwood's discussion of the announcement is worth a read to understand what this means. No publisher chris 2005-12-03T14:53:24Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/building-trac-on-solaris-walk-thru I have written an article on how to build all the dependencies for Trac on Solaris 10. Some of the dependencies do not build out-of-the-box, and some magic is required. This is what worked for me, anyway. No publisher chris 2005-12-02T14:21:39Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/jeff-bonwick-explains-raid-z RAID-Z is an exciting new chapter in the story of RAID storage. ZFS makes use of it, and now that ZFS has been released, Jeff Bonwick explains what RAID-Z is all about. No publisher chris 2005-11-24T16:16:45Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/windows/news/a-guided-tour-of-the-microsoft-command-shell Ars Technica has an in-depth review of the new Microsoft Command Shell (MSH). It looks like a very interesting combination of Perl and Python with some SQL thrown in. Time will tell if traditional command-line administrators embrace MSH as much as they have the bourne shell and all its friends. No publisher chris 2005-11-17T18:09:12Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/Members/chris/newsposts/the-eddie-tool-0-35-released Version 0.35 of EDDIE-Tool, a system and network monitoring agent, has been released. Includes support for two new platforms: FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. As well as Solaris 10 support. Better support for Linux kernel 2.6. SMTP response time monitoring. The FILE directive can show diffs when monitored files are modified. Disk/filesystem throughput measuring on Solaris. Many more enhancements and bugfixes. No publisher chris 2005-11-01T22:43:45Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/openbsd/news/openbsd-3-8-released OpenBSD 3.8 has been released. New features include improved hardware support, new tools, new functionality such as UDF (DVD) filesystem support and network interface aggregation, new functionality for ospfd & bgpd and various other improvements. No publisher chris 2005-11-01T22:35:53Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/databases/news/oscon-2005-postgresql-presentations The OSCON 2005 PostgreSQL Presentations are a good read for those with an interest in PostgreSQL development. No publisher chris 2005-10-26T19:53:16Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/sun-to-update-solaris-10-by-year-end Sun plans to release its first Solaris 10 update by the end of the year, featuring a new start-up process and smart software update features. However, the eagerly-awaited ZFS and Janus technologies will have to wait until next year, at least. No publisher chris 2005-10-25T20:37:22Z News Item http://systemsadmin.info/solaris/news/security-forensics-using-dtrace Sys Admin Magazine has a great article on using Solaris 10's DTrace as a security forensics tool for analyzing suspicious files and processes. No publisher chris 2005-10-25T18:26:53Z News Item