Hardware updates

I received a new hard drive for Christmas so I will soon be able to transfer the 20GB drive from my computer to the server. The website will finally be running on a large, stable hard drive.

This means the server will be down for a few hours some time between today and January 3rd.

Update Integration

Added "Return to site index" link to sidebar.
Integrated updates page into site navigation structure.

It's working! Stand Back!!

After fighting all weekend and all day to get FTP running, I realized that Blogger allowed SFTP, which is built in to SSH - which is running fine, thankyouverymuch.

Update page added

This server update page has been added to provide a space for me to publish server updates.

I reinstalled Linux last night. I was just too lost in Slackware so I installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3. I was able to get most everything running.

Here are some reminders for me:
To mount the second hard drive
1. Create a directory/folder to mount it to (i.e. /mnt/data)
2. Edit /etc/fstab and add the command:
[device] [mount point] [filesys] auto 0 2
(i.e. /dev/hdd1 /mnt/data ext3 auto 0 2)

Start services at boot
chkconfig [service] on
(i.e. chkconfig httpd on)

Start/stop/restart a service
service [svc name] start | stop | restart
(i.e. service vsftpd stop)