The Bungling Sys Admin

My recent problem?  The version of logrotate (logrotate 3.7.1) I'm running on an old web server doesn't support the "dateext...

I somehow lost my ssh key pub file, which is inconvenient when I want to copy it out to other hosts.  I could grab it from another host'...

 Keynote  I won't go into too much detail.  You can see it for yourself at http://vmware.com/go/keynote . You can suffer through the d...

Notes for Day 0 at San Francisco / VMworld Here are my notes of my first full day in San Francisco. I call it Day 0 since none of the off...

I know. Long time, no blog, right? I'm on "vacation," I've got some spare time, and I just got the HTC Evo 4G yesterday ...

I needed a quick way to get the statuses of my NetBackup runs on a daily basis. This works for me, but maybe because there aren't that ...

I wanted to send this out in case others are considering purchasing AT&T's Microcell. Before this becomes an "AT&T stinks...