Thread: LINUX

Originally Posted by Troy

I managed to kill the mainframe at GCHQ one Friday afternoon from Cheltenham GS...

Do that now and you'd be in Guantanamo Bay before before it finished rebooting!

you guys have been quite busy I see

Originally Posted by DrB0b

nginx with a set of custom modules on 2,000 servers.

nginx on production servers ? what kind of shit are you running DrB ?

why not use IIS while you are at it ?

Go Apache, like all real men do, even though config might seem too complicated for nginx admins

Originally Posted by DrB0b

800 of them have specific requirements to disable caching for font-face fonts when requests come in from IE11 and are being proxied to specific back-end servers.

BS alert rings big here, I will be curious to see your justification for it. And why only the fonts, not the images served by your webserver ? and how a user agent is being specifically targetted for it and all of it being configured at your webserver level for no real specific purpose. Again your justification will be more interesting than flashing out words most IT retards on TD wouldn't get (including Harry of course)

Originally Posted by DrB0b

created the RPM packages I'm going to install

RPM is really old dude, it's great for managing libs dependencies and distributing your code to the public but it's not for servers mass provisioning, something you are obviously doing here.

so where have you been and what you have been doing ? there are better options for this out there. Upgrade yourself here. Google "server provisioning" if you don't know what that mean

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I've just finished regression testing and am ready to deploy.

I know you are Irish and pretentious like all Irish are, but really stop flashing words for the IT handicapped here, it makes you sound ridiculous, even though we know you are taking the piss, but it's like lecturing nuclear physics to a bunch of monkeys in cage. Try that on provisioning admin forums instead

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Your advice on how to do this deployment, maintain consistency across servers, and ensure that all of this fits into our Continuous Integration and Configuration Management systems while using only FTP, tar, and automake would be appreciated. BTW, the whole deployment should take less than 3 minutes from beginning to end.

You could code all this yourself in perl, bash or even python and integrate all this tools for provisioning only and, or continuous integration of your source code. But you being an admin, and lazy, you should probably install packages that do already all this for you. And yes you could use tar, bash and rsync (instead of FTP) to put all this together. But RPM as the only solution ? certainly not, and you need to wake the fuck up if you think a dependcy package manager is going to help in mass provisioning (2000 servers as you claimed)

back to you bitch

PS: the debate between /opt and /usr/local is pointless, /opt is not used anymore, but doesn't mean you can't use it. DEAL.

^

and DrB, you are an old dude, yet smart man

what the fuck are you even bothering configuring and admin provisioning 2,000 servers ? this is low level admin monkey shit, leave that crap to the kids, they love it. We are too old for that shit dude. All that admin technology is pointless anyhow, it's more of a production chain for worker slaves than enlightening technology to inspire building greater things.

Just saying, you should focus on doing better things with your mind than provisioning servers for idiot customers

have you tried music and playing an instrument ?

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

DrB, you are an old dude

No, if I remember correctly he's quite young.

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

No, if I remember correctly he's quite young.

about same age as me if I remember correctly, a bit older.

For you, young

What happened to lom?

Does anyone on TD have a clue as to what linux is?

Originally Posted by bsnub

What happened to lom?

Does anyone on TD have a clue as to what linux is?

It's an O/S from a Fine Finn

or an album from the Ubuntu Boyz

^ I've been using linux at work for many years and different flavours of unix before that. I use it at home too but I wouldn't recommend it to inexperienced people. The reason is simple, not enough driver support. Drivers are made for windows because they make money, not the case for linux.

I use windows 11 at home because it supports all my hardware and new hardware I may wish to buy will work with it.

It's a great way of keeping an old PC ticking along.

Also for building media servers and the like.

Probably too complicated for you snubby.

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I guess nobody knows what happened to lom. I am well aware as to what linux is as I have it running on a backup PC. I was being sarcastic.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I guess nobody knows what happened to lom. I am well aware as to what linux is as I have it running on a backup PC. I was being sarcastic.

No you weren't, someone probably installed it for you and you don't know how to work it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

No you weren't, someone probably installed it for you and you don't know how to work it.

Riight.