This weekend has been a weekend from hell with servers not coming up after reboot. This is all related to the somewhat recent udev update (udev-151-r4). During the emerge it will warn you if you have some incompatible config options: * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.28-hardened-r9 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options…… Continue reading Nightmares with udev updates

I’m writing this in case this happens to me again. Today, I was having issues remoting into a Windows Server 2003 server. It was complaining about lack of rights, and that I should be a member of the Remote Desktop Users group to have those rights. Sounds great, but my user was already a member… Continue reading Unable to remote into windows server 2003

So, I noticed that dirvish was blowing up on a Windows Server 2003 backup. Looking at the logs, I noticed it was in reference to a file that was named with a large file name. I have no idea how Windows allows this, yet complains about it. Hopping on to that box, I was having… Continue reading Renaming long file names in Windows