Penguicon and Git
Penguicon 4.0 is here (tomorrow), and I’ll be giving a talk on Git
at 11pm. There should be a bunch of interesting things going on there, and free beer.
2006-4-20
2006-4-6
Spanning tree and NFS
For the record, the fact that Debian’s startup tends to fail in the presence of smart switches that try to do spanning-tree detection gets really annoying when you have production machines that depend on NFS servers being available.
Technically, this would be solvable by building a proper hosts file on each server, but that’s what DNS is for.
So, I’m going to try a script like this on each server during the startup sequence, to try to delay the startup until the default gateway comes up:
