Archives for: "June 2008"
2008/06/24
SMART Disk Monitoring - simple steps
From these instructions
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools
smartctl -i /dev/hdd
smartctl -H /dev/hdd
smartctl -l error /dev/hdd
smartctl -c /dev/hdd
smartctl -t offline /dev/hdd
smartctl -l error /dev/hda
smartc… more »
2008/06/23
gentoo grub update
Sometimes Gentoo could do better in helping out with simple upgrades:
After upgrading to a new grub (linux hard drive bootloader) I saw this message:
* Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r5:
* *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install
*… more »
gentoo dnsmasq issues
I keep getting these errors in my dnsmasq.log file:
Jun 22 21:34:48 fire dnsmasq[28990]: DHCPACK(eth1) 192.168.333.100 00:13:8f:c7:b7:31 gamer5
Jun 22 21:34:48 fire dnsmasq[28990]: not giving name gamer1 to the DHCP lease of 192.168.333.126 because the… more »
monitoring gentoo server hard drive status
Following most of this how-to:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools
I've set it up to email the various Gmail account for my servers. So now hopefully I'll get some advance warning if a hard drive is thinking about… more »
