Archives for January 2008
Re: Version Controled Configs
Ok, so I just ended up backing up my configs and diving in head first. It is really much easier than I thought, although I had to fiddle with subversion to do the in-place import. Answering my earlier questions…
New Job
Ohh, almost forgot. I got a new job as a UNIX System Administrator at Mount Carmel Health System. Yeah me! They want me to help define their Linux standards. And hopefully I won’t fear blogging about work so I can post about my adventures. Very cool.
Power Problems
Well, the power supply in my “server” finally went south and took the site offline for a week and a half. Should have been proactive and purchased a new one ahead of time. But of course that only was the first thing that went wrong.
Swapping the power supply was not as easy as I had [...]
Version Controlled Configs
I’ve been reading up on using subversion to manage my various system config files, namely /etc. While not familiar with using subversion (only knowing about it and what it does), I have been using a couple of websites as role-models: Scott Scriven’s how-to, Peter Murray’s gentoo specific how-to, and Noah Gift’s Red Hat Magazine article. [...]