Fedora 9 is here!!!
May 13, 2008
At exactly 19:15 IST, in 45 mins from now, Fedora 9 will be available for download.
In addition to our ftp, we have a few reserved rsync access.
If you want special access (For distributing among many people, release party etc etc…) please write to indradg requesting access.
I am sure it will be available from other mirrors too, but given that all are not synced yet and keeping in mind the rush that will be generated, it is highly probable that you have to wait for a few hours if not days.
We all are eagerly waiting for the expected mess up…
Fedora 9 is getting synced.
May 9, 2008
Today after a few hours of struggles, I managed to get rsync work.
So Fedora 9 is happily getting synced to my mirror and it will be done by the release time.
For a few days, 4 to be precise, we must keep ourselves offline to get the whole bandwidth.
Though I have marked ourselves “disabled”, people trying to update F8 or F7 may get timeout for next one hour or so.
Sorry for that.
Will come back with Fedora 9. 
WBUT has joined NTP cluster.
May 4, 2008
What gives you a euphoric feeling?
For me, it’s a sleepless night, a graph (synchronized every half an hour) slowly moving towards the cut in line, combined with, well, a book of cryptography and coding ;).
Yesterday, I (or we at WBUT) configured and included ourselves in the NTP cluster. The machine which hosts this server is orca.wbut.ac.in. From now onwards, most of the time sync requests from India is going to be redirected towards us and we are happy to have them.
As always, we are the first and sole participant from India in the cluster. I am extremely hopeful that we will soon get a few more servers across India.
Anyway, we are currently operating as stratum 2 server. But soon we may be getting hold of a card like this and upgrade ourself to a stratum 1 server.
Before closing, two screenshots.
1. Our score (cut off is 5)
2. And our sync
PS: As this cluster is extremely sensitive, it takes 4-5 hours to re sync once a server is out of sync or rebooted.
Nagios, do you pay for sms service?
April 22, 2008
I don’t think nagios need any introduction. Neither does the fact that it can send out email and sms alert.
But what about getting alerts on your phone ? And at free of cost?
A few weeks back, I found this gateway. Surely, there are many other such gateways, but I did not have time to search for them. Rather, I decided to go on with my experiment on the network I manage at WBUT.
This gateway supports email2sms. But it requires you to register and upload your phone number and mail id ( from which you are sending these alert mails) to be added to your portal profile. So I registered an account with them with my mobile number 9999999999 and email nagios@orca.wbut.ac.in.
The gateway also requires that the mail, which will be converted to sms, have your mobile number as a subject.
So to accomplish that, without any loss of functionality of the alerts, I had to change the command.cfg file a bit.
All I did was to change the mail function to
‘notify-host-by-email’ command definition
define command{
command_name notify-host-by-email
command_line /usr/bin/printf “Nagios Host: $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTSTATE$ Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n” | /bin/mail -s “9999999999″ $CONTACTEMAIL$
}
Where 9999999999 would be your mobile number and nagios@your_server would be email registered with the portal.
Thats all. Just shut down one of your hosts and wait. You received a sms. Didn’t you?
Of course, this is implemented for monitoring the servers at WBUT. Whenever a server is down or unreachable for more that 15 mins, we get a sms !!!
Mirror stats and openoffice .
April 18, 2008
We have got listed in OpenOffice mirror and
after a long time, I have got these back on line….
Usage of http which serves CRAN, Mozilla, OpenOffice and LDP.
Usage of ftp which is for Fedora only.
Cumulatively they are serving over 55G a day.
