On 6/17/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > This is a perfect example of why it would take longer...I'd have to spend > 3 hours just to find out that I needed to run those commands and how to > run > them!
The main crux. Knowledge is knowledge, is knowledge. My *nix experience helped me in other areas (windows ssh stuff, os x in general), but the issue is one we all face. My folly is I seem to like the learning more than the doing... If I have a "main" folly, besides time... they're kinda related, I guess... ;-) And all the stuff you mentioned at the end of your email...don't do any of > that stuff. I don't do the stuff Jochem suggests, but wish I did. (sometimes I do, too.) The memory testing is good: A bad memory chip can be one of the worst red herrings you'll encounter. The alarm he's talking about is the RAID alarm that should go off if a HD fails, nothing to do with security. Tho they have security ones too, which are pretty cool, but probably not so cool if you host the server in your house (unless your kids are meddlesome). The backup and restore test idea is pretty important, too. All of the suggestions are aimed more at folks who's servers change quite a bit more regularly than yours, but are good practice none the less, even if one server is all you have to worry about, for the next 10 years. They come from experience... bah. Sometimes it takes a bite, I know. do all that stuff...maybe one day I'll be bitten by not doing it...then I'll > do it...but for > now, it seems like overkill... The only problem is that sometimes the bite is fatal, is all. You'd have to be some type of seer to know ahead of time, obviously. so you could spend 10 ounces of pennies... I dig it. It's a conundrum o life. No easy answer, sounds like you're taking it at your own pace, totally awesome. Insert whatever quote that is about a journey never started here. I'm proud of you, Rick. Nice to see you coming out of that shell. (as a hippy once told me in a drum circle) Eh, I should stop yapp'n and get crack'n... add procrastination to the list (o' folly), por favor. :Dee E In ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244014 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
