Someday and Today

I am in the process of building another Linux machine. This one is the Fedora 4 Core and has gone pretty easy. Only one little intsy – tensy bug reared its head to cause three re-installs. This bug would not let me script start the Samba Server at start up. I could manually start it and I wrote a script to start it and could call the script and it would start but at boot neither would start. The problem seems to be a bug in the SELinux area and by unchecking the “enforce” box everything was AOK. Now I have a file server for my W2K machines and a potential BU unit for this Apache Server. I am using this new device as a training tool as well and have a few more servers running on it. NTP is running well. I may put the charleswmoore.org site on it as well just to have a backup Apache server running.

My real Linux activity is towards the Cluster Server area. My intention is for a load sharing and mission critical focus. I would like to use 5 -10 old headless Dell Optiplex 400MHz machines running in a cluster to perform the web server & file server activities. If a machine dies I just replace it with a clone and everything just chunks away nicely. We will see how far I get.