Category Archives: downtime

Kernel upgrade

Posted on January 9, 2009 by independence

The kernel upgrade earlier today worked out pretty well, better than expected I have to say. So far things seems to be working very well. Bitlbeed now listens on 192.168.1.12 (titan) instead of 127.0.0.1 which was not really planned, and … Continue reading →

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Network down

Posted on February 25, 2008 by independence

As you probably noticed, Titan’s internet connection has been down for almost the entire weekend. After a powerfailure this Saturday some of my ISP’s equipment died, and since they don’t work on weekends we had to wait until today to … Continue reading →

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Reboot

Posted on February 22, 2008 by independence

There was a poweroutage at 04.01AM this morning, it was long enough to force the server to shut down after the UPS ran out of power. When I woke up I used this opportunity to put some more RAM into … Continue reading →

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Linux Local Root Exploit

Posted on February 11, 2008 by independence

There was news about a Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 on Slashdot yesterday. It’s pretty serious, and it affects most of the recent 2.6 kernels from what I can gather, up to kernel 2.6.24.2 which is patched against this … Continue reading →

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CPU fan broke down

Posted on November 26, 2007 by independence

This morning at about 05.00AM the CPU fan in the server broke down, causing the system to shut down. Fortunately, I was visiting my parents this weekend (where the server is at), so I managed to fix it and boot … Continue reading →

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Snoopy, system reboot

Posted on October 10, 2007 by independence

Today I was trying to update a program called snoopy logger, which is a program to log all executed commands on a system. It does this by wrapping the function execve(), and it get’s called every time a program is … Continue reading →

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