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Accessing webdav shares from the command line
I have been using webdav as a centralized storage system for a the past year or so. I typically use the OS X built-in DAV support, but recently needed to be able to access my DAV share through the shell. After a bit of poking around on the web, I came across the cadaver command line DAV client. Cadaver is pretty slick, and operates very similar to an FTP client…
$ read more →Debugging apache article
If you subscribe to SysAdmin magazine, you might be interested in my article Debugging Apache Web Server Problems, which is available in the July issue. Here is the list of topics I covered in the article: Using single process mode to isolate problems. Using httpd flags to debug configuration errors. Debugging CGI script execution problems with ScriptLog…
$ read more →iSCSI slides
I gave a presentation on the Solaris iSCSI stack at the Atlanta opensolaris users group meeting this evening. If your curious what was discussed, you can look through the slides that were used for the presentation. I would like to thank everyone for coming out, and for being such a great audience. It was a pleasure talking about this super cool topic with everyone!!!
$ read more →Debugging and hardware links
I came across a few nifty articles on PCI, interrupt handlers, FB-DIMM and debugging this week: PCI for developers: Advanced interrupt handlers: When Linux runs out of memory: Introducing FB-DIMMM memory: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1812 Signals as a Linux debugging tool:
$ read more →Locating good hosting providers
I have been trying to locate a high quality hosting provider now for 3-months, and my first two attempts have failed miserably. Dreamhost had cool features and great support, but their infrastructure was not very realiable. 1and1 also had some useful features, but their support was horrible (I was getting 500 internal server error messages for 1/2 a day, and when they finally answered my ticket 24-hours later, they closed it saying my site was working fine.), and their infrastructure was less reliable than Dreamhost. Since I wanted my site to be up and operational 99% of the time, I decided I needed to do some research to find a reliable and trustworthy hosting provider…
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