Archive | September, 2008

Server Upgrade Notes

18 Sep

This site was down for about 20 hours since yesterday afternoon (i.e., 9/17/08) while I upgraded my Ubuntu server.  It was kind of scary to rebuild it from scratch, but I want to get a Bugzilla instance and SVN repository set up and the old OS had reached EOL.  My apologies to anyone who tried to access the site for the last day or so.

A few brief notes on the upgrade.

  1. ubuntu server would not auto recognize flash thumb drives … manual mount
  2. named runs under it’s own bind user and the config files for it must be bind group read only
  3. apache configuration can be tricky.  You must enable mod_rewrite, set up NameVirtualHost * in the httpd.conf, enable vhost files, create some soft links, etc.  … it’s a battle
  4. rsync needs correct sudoers setup
  5. postfix has to be configured to forward to ISP

Monarch Crest Trail: Over crowded and used

11 Sep

Sept 6, 2008 Mike Carr, Rob Woolf, John Bissell and I rode Monarch Crest Trail/Rainbow Trail loop utilizing our own automobile shuttle to cover the gap from Poncha Springs to Monarch Pass.  The ride of roughly 35 miles and 2,600′ feet packs a tremendous amount of beautiful natural scenery and variable terrain into what is in reality a low effort given the long distance and lack of any major vertical climbs (e.g., no single hill climbs probably exceeds 200′).

Monarch Crest/Rainbow Trail start

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