As lots of other people, I strongly believe that a proper backup policy is a mandatory key-factor in every scenario. Unfortunately –again, as lots of other people– I also know that a proper backup policy is hard to implement, expecially when involving serious budget constraints. To be short: for one of my customers, I setup … [Read more…]
I spent some time, this afternoon, to reply a question of the ServerFault community, where Raptor asked: “I enabled the Apache Status page by mod_status module. The process list is very long, and most of them are OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0, which I want to filter away. Is there any tweak, option or flag to hide those OPTIONS … [Read more…]
Yesterday morning I’ve been notified, by the monitoring platform running at a customer site (NAGIOS, actually), that two distinct DNS services (two BIND instances running on two different Linux hosts – different distributions and different bind versions) gone down at mostly the same time: [08-05-2015 02:09:33] SERVICE ALERT: srv-*****;dns;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL – Plugin timed out while executing … [Read more…]
Let’s start from this: if you’re a Linux power-user & you’re owning an Android MTK-based device & you’re wondering how to get root (…and what kind of benefits you’ll have, concretely, being root), this page is for you. I’m the —happy, indeed— owner of two so-called Android china-devices: an UMI C1 smartphone and a Cube … [Read more…]
So, finally, I’ve taken some time, this sunday, to bring on-line this blog. It’s quite some time that I’m trying both a proper way to keep together my tech-notes and, at the same time, to refresh my website. After some (…actually, not-very-deep) search, I ended relying on WordPress. All the alternatives I’ve investigated: TiddlyWiki : really … [Read more…]