Posts from ‘May, 2010’

Learnt today that whilst a ups failure might not damage your servers – cisco routers are not so resilient # leRNT TODA #

Wonders if anyone else got a flyer from tesco's for solar panels…. and wonders where Tesco's thinks they have 6k+ for them! # Researching Load Balancing for iknow-uk's new webfarm – such fun! Ah well a series of guides might come out of it! #

Had a problem earlier this week, webmail couldn’t always send e-mail. It was coming back with the following error:

SMTP Error: SMTP error: Connection failed: Failed to connect socket: Connection timed out.

Have you ever had a linux server or desktop which all of a sudden couldn’t create a file – running “df -h” shows you your disk partitions aren’t full?

You’ve logged in as root to check – and yup you still can’t write any files – even a “touch test.txt” fails with a message saying can’t write file – disk or partition full?

With linux servers a couple of things can take up disk-space unexpectedly. Log files is the usual culprit, but if your server is a rented one you might be stuck with a bit of a weird partition setup.

For some reason some hosts will give little storage to partitions which then get filled up unexpectedly.