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Yesterday I had a small time window and I decided to install intrepid amd64 on my D830

As I use puppet even for my workstation I don't have allot of work to do after installation

The only thing I did was install puppet and copy my old /etc/puppet dir and start puppet

That's it,
After running I have all my packets I use and even all my menus in xfce(where I switched to last month)

If I watch the bootchart I see that its booting faster than hardy (without tweaks)
My hardy needed mostly 45sec while Intrepid 30sec

The only bug I saw directly was the puppet initscript

After running sed -i -e 's/run\/puppet/puppet\/run/' /etc/init.d/puppet its fixed
(bug submit updated)

21:50:39|mario@floris:/data 0 $

Ok now your wondering why I want to blog this, well...

The clock in front is blue because I like blue
A clock is very handy if your working in a large environment and if you are doing stuff on several servers at the same time (as usual)
So then you can see @what time you committed a command

Then the user@server:/path is handy if you use scp
I just can copy/past this (as root I'm lazy, so everything I can automate or script I don't need to type again)

scp file1 user@server:/path/where/I/am/like/pwd

the green zero behind is variable
green=($?==0)
red=($?!=0)
and the number is just how many jobs I have in background

The prompt: (just copy/past in your bash console)

PS1='\[\e[34m\]\t\[\e[0m\]|\u@\h:\w `if [[ $? = 0 ]]; then echo '\''\[\e[32m\]\j\[\e[0m\]'\''; else echo '\''\[\e[31m\]\j\[\e[0m\]'\'' ; fi` \$ '

My xfce4-terminal had stolen 1G of memory and I
could not open a new terminal (xubuntu) until I closed them all
It just opens a new terminal window but no prompt found

I guess it is due all the crap coming out of the debug-logs
and then the buffers are full using up 1G
(I use the max value @scroll-back because I need it allot)

If I have @next failure some more time I will try to find out why this is happening

after I had a small of time, I figured out that with the option --disable-server
you can start a extra terminal without registering it into the DBUS session
then you can continue your work or just running out of memory

Well I've already said to everyone where I have a conversation about computers just start using Linux!
I don't give up! because I actually have sympathy with those that do not open their eyes and get frustrated every day, this because their PC does not respond, or need to wait 15min until they can chat or read e-mail ... (I do known so many examples)
Every time again they tell me that they can't ...
and this because of rare excuses.

while the majority only use the basis of what a PC can do
chat, mail, office, surfing

I think the worst fact is that our schools are still force parents to buy office and windows for their child or they can't follow in there classroom
while they would better use open office so that everyone can fly at the end

- Everyone uses it(windows), but almost idd, when will people stop
playing like a herd of animals? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behavior I do this because he does so"
life would be allot easy-er

- It is mutch too difficult; hmm precisely whether you can do everything in windows as you want?
everything is chewed for you with wizards

- I know nothing of Linux, Me either 11 years ago!(before that I was a car mechanic)(OK I needed 1 year to discover that linux exists but is was due the problem of not having internet@home and having a stand-alone 486)
Just start to use it, you will just have as many problems with windows but it is nice if you begin to reduce these problems ones you will see how stuff is working!

- Linux command line is too difficult, so? windows has dos!

WTF
This I had never seen a gutter inside a computer room
sometimes when it rained allot (rarely), some water is coming inside the computer room
Apparently they could not really find from where the water is comming
This is a computer room in a basement of the building

I really like the Foss way of working but RedHat is more reacting like Microsoft
If there is one thing I cant forgive is that company's acting like Microsoft or other proprietary stuff
How can we improve the world if everybody is working on there own

For me a good reason to switch my own servers to another linux os like Debian or so,
For my they must publish everything even if there is no bugfix

How can I else protect my customers if I don't now there is a problem.

The Fedora RedHat crisis

for wakeonlan you need to set the flag "Wake-on: g"
"ethtool -s eth0 wol g" (place it in /etc/rc.local)

When running xen remember that eth0 is renamed to peth0 so "ethtool -s peth0 wol g"

For booting from remote:
centos "ether-wake 00:1f:3b:41:c2:05"
ubuntu "wakeonlan 00:1f:3b:41:c2:05"

zenoss was not running (the web was not available @port 8080)

 zenoss]# /etc/init.d/zenoss status
Daemon: zeoctl program running; pid=11840
Daemon: zopectl daemon manager not running
Daemon: zenhub program running; pid=11849
Daemon: zenping program running; pid=11856
Daemon: zensyslog program running; pid=11865
Daemon: zenstatus program running; pid=11871
Daemon: zenactions program running; pid=11880
Daemon: zentrap program running; pid=11888
Daemon: zenmodeler program running; pid=11909
Daemon: zenperfsnmp program running; pid=11923
Daemon: zencommand program running; pid=11933
Daemon: zenprocess program running; pid=11947
Daemon: zenwin program running; pid=11957
Daemon: zeneventlog program running; pid=11968
Daemon: zenwinmodeler program running; pid=11977

@debug

zopectl> status
daemon manager running; daemon process not running
zopectl> debug
Starting debugger (the name "app" is bound to the top-level Zope object)
2008-06-18 08:38:04 WARNING OFS.Application Duplicate Product name
After loading Product 'Five' from '/opt/zenoss/Products',
I skipped the one in '/opt/zenoss/lib/python/Products'.

2008-06-18 08:38:04 ERROR Zope Could not import Products.ZenEvents
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/zenoss/lib/python/OFS/Application.py", line 695, in import_product
    product=__import__(pname, global_dict, global_dict, silly)
  File "/opt/zenoss/Products/ZenEvents/__init__.py", line 24, in ?
    from MySqlEventManager import MySqlEventManager, addMySqlEventManager, \

First impress: Looks good
its fast, desktop latency looks fast

so I look forward to downl the release in 6day's and install it

First thing that gave a problem was init,
"init 6" and nothing happens
even "shutdown -r now" had a failure

after running the updates I saw it was already fixed
(init's are now controlled by upstart)(I guess I need to read some docs heh)

Hmm first time jabber usage (I'm used to use Bitchx irc)

so after watching some clients I decide to take mcabber

http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/mcabber/screenshots/mcabber_sample.png

if you watch Bitchx screenshot you now why this choice

the nice thing about this is you can put it in a screen