Update on NIS/Home and next meeting

[Ronald Maggio]

----- Original Message -----
From: "JJ Neff" <jjneff at yahoo.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Update on NIS/Home and next meeting


> Thanks to everyone who came and made the meeting such a success.  I hope
> everyone left with a littel more info than they came with, I know I did.
>
> I am now running NIS exclusively at home and have setup my wife and my
home
> directories on the server (now I need a bigger SCSI DRIVE! anyone have a
20Gb
> SCSI drive laying around taking up space? :-)  she just called me and
reminded
> me I forgot to make sure the printer worked for her.  Oh well!
>
> BUT since the Home directories are on the server as well as Staroffice I
have
> more room for GAMES on /opt  YEAH!!!
>
> I also may have found out what was causing my random lock-ups/NFS
freezes/SAMBA
> stoppages and assorted miserable performance.  My / was at 100%
utilization. A
> scan of the /var/log/messages told me that NFS and Samba and just about
> everything was trying to write to /var/<something> and failing.  Well it
> appears SNORT was running and wrote 1.7 Gb of data to /var/log/snort!
once
> cleared up (and snort removed) / dropped to 11% utilization (over 1.5 Gb
freed
> on 2Gb drive!)  Thanks to Bob M for some more cmd line tools to quickly
find
> offensive disk space hogs.
>
> ****************
> ls -s <lists files and their sizes only
>
> find / -xdev -size 1024K -print  < this will find all files on the currect
FS
> (partition) that are taking up more than a MB, useful becasue my /usr and
/home
> were on other partitions and not involved.
>
> du -sk * < my favorite! finds the sum of all subdirectories/files in the
> current file path and returns the total size of all subdirectories in
current
> directory (ie if in /var it will return total size of all directories in
var,
> if /var/log the biggest I go into /var/log do it again and find the
biggest in
> there!)
>
> df -h < Human readable Disk Free - best for seeing a BIG PICTURE view to
see if
> your careful removel of files is actually freeing up space.
>
>
> To find the largest files I started with du -sk * in / and drilled down
from
> there.  Thats how I found the 1.7 GB folder in /var/log/snort.  Be careful
of
> any app that writes continuous logs (and keep logs on seperate partition
if
> possible!)
>
> *********************************
>
> ABOUT NEXT MEETING:
>
> MArch is always rough because of St. Pat's and Palm Sundae (this holy day
of
> obligation is to commemorate those who are too poor to get cones and have
to
> eat ice-cream out of their hands, Oh well it's been a long time since I
went to
> church :-).  I do not object to meeting either the 17th or 24th.  Although
on
> St. Pat's downtown may be wacky and on Palm Sunday everyone will be
carrying
> palms and I've always feared those things (childhood tragedy :-)
>
> Anyways what your feeling.  Speak up and lets decide on the 10th, 17th or
the
> 24th.  Remember the day also will include LAN gaming as I will hopefully
be
> able to stay late this time!!!!   Maybe we can even walk over to a
downtown Pub
> to really get the St. Pat's spirit! but only if they have T1 access !
>
> JJN
>
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My vote is for the 24th. Oh, John take a tally and see which date wins.
Let us know in a few days.

Ron Maggio