Wow, I miss being a geek.
Oct. 12th, 2007 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brinshannaraSo, once upon a time, I was a geek.
Once upon a time, I had all this... knowledge, all this usable, ready-to-spout knowledge about things like bash shells and how to switch from one linux editor to another and how to ungzip things without a second thought.
Sitting here, in the shell of my IRC server, I'm like... oh my God, there are so many FILES and wait, WHICH ones are the important ones again?!
I JUST now remembered that the evil text editor is called vi and the good one is called pico. Now if only I can find instructions on how to edit cron jobs in pico and not vi.
What I have to do:
- force a services backup of all configuration files to do with channels and names used on the server. - DONE
- copy the important configuration files and services backup files to safe locations to use in the new versions of the software. - DONE
- stop the old server from automatically trying to run every 15 minutes while I work on bringing up the new server. - DONE
- make sure the new server is configured properly and will run and allow connections. - DONE
- make sure the new services are configured properly and will run AND RECOGNIZE the old server. - DONE
- install the open proxy scanner and pray it's not incomprehensible gobbledegook that won't work no matter what I do, like the last time I tried it. - DONE!
- once all three programs are stable and running in concert, set up a new cron job to run all three every 15 minutes or so to ensure less downtime. - DONE!
- change the message of the day for the proper news page URL, as this morning, I changed the news page to work with the "new" look, which is actually two years old. I'm real good at this stuff. :P - CAN WAIT.
Wish me luck!
Once upon a time, I had all this... knowledge, all this usable, ready-to-spout knowledge about things like bash shells and how to switch from one linux editor to another and how to ungzip things without a second thought.
Sitting here, in the shell of my IRC server, I'm like... oh my God, there are so many FILES and wait, WHICH ones are the important ones again?!
I JUST now remembered that the evil text editor is called vi and the good one is called pico. Now if only I can find instructions on how to edit cron jobs in pico and not vi.
What I have to do:
- force a services backup of all configuration files to do with channels and names used on the server. - DONE
- copy the important configuration files and services backup files to safe locations to use in the new versions of the software. - DONE
- stop the old server from automatically trying to run every 15 minutes while I work on bringing up the new server. - DONE
- make sure the new server is configured properly and will run and allow connections. - DONE
- make sure the new services are configured properly and will run AND RECOGNIZE the old server. - DONE
- install the open proxy scanner and pray it's not incomprehensible gobbledegook that won't work no matter what I do, like the last time I tried it. - DONE!
- once all three programs are stable and running in concert, set up a new cron job to run all three every 15 minutes or so to ensure less downtime. - DONE!
- change the message of the day for the proper news page URL, as this morning, I changed the news page to work with the "new" look, which is actually two years old. I'm real good at this stuff. :P - CAN WAIT.
Wish me luck!
