Monthly Archives: January 2009

Xserve disk mirror repair

Posted on 2009-01-27 by Jim

Looking over the last few posts, I seem to be stuck in a rut. I apologize to readers looking for stories about our remodeling project, progress on Barb’s quilt shop, cooking, or other tales of home. Believe me when I … Continue reading →

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Duplicate DHCP leases

Posted on 2009-01-16 by Jim

We’ve been getting the following types of error messages on our DHCP server (running on FreeBSD): Jan 12 07:01:52 *someserver* dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.100.200 for client 00:12:34:56:78:9a is duplicate on 192.168.100/24 Google turned up a helpful post which told me … Continue reading →

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Background fsck problems

Posted on 2009-01-14 by Jim

We had some trouble with our FreeBSD systems over the holiday shutdown a few weeks ago. Our backup generator didn’t kick in during an extended power outage, and our UPS’s didn’t provide enough runtime to see us through. Result: all … Continue reading →

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Burning ISO images on a Mac

Posted on 2009-01-13 by Jim

I burn ISO images on my Mac fairly frequently, but not often enough to have the process committed to memory. In the past I’ve always followed the instructions I found in a macosxhints post. It works, but it has always … Continue reading →

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