Monthly Archives: October 2012

With some effort and frustration, I got VirtualBox running on four of our CentOS 6.3 client machines, jay, finch, lark, and robin.  It can now run headless VMs that (re)start when the host (re)boots, and can even run 64-bit guests, … Continue reading →

There’s a package (Python module) that interfaces a Python Script with a MySQL database back-end.  It’s called MySQLdb.  For example: [root@puma ~] python2.4 Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 18 2012, 08:55:23) >>> import MySQLdb >>> [root@puma ~] python2.6 Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, … Continue reading →

Generally, users receive emails warning them if they are near or over their quota usage. However, users haven’t been receiving these notifications for some time now, which is mysterious. I checked /root/sysadmin/bin/ for quota-related scripts, i.e., scripts containing the word … Continue reading →

We have several layers of backups for our data. BigData (drive enclosure T) is a 2.7 TB drive with backups for a week. tempest (drive enclosure V) has backups for 90 days (it’s useful to have incrementals). There’s also a … Continue reading →