Chris J
Online Articles
- Using Solaris SMF
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O'Reilly and Associates, Apr 2006
A brief introduction on how to administer a Solaris 10 environment. It's
written for Unix administrators that are more used to RC script environments
and how they can get a handle on using SMF to control their systems.
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Writing Apache's Logs To MySql
- O'Reilly and Associates, Feb 2005
This article was kind of a follow-up to the blackbox article. It was pretty
good, but I still have some doubts about whether piping logs to a database
is really a good idea. But there are about 3 different Apache modules that
do this functionality, so I guess there is some demand for it.
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Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache's Blackbox Logs
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O'Reilly and Associates, Apr 2004
I had this idea on ways you could try and get better performance metrics just
by using logging directives that are available in the mod_log module that
nobody ever uses. This is the resulting article.
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Managing Bulk DNS Zones With Perl
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O'Reilly and Associates, Nov 2002
A programming example covering how to build DNS for large forward and
reverse IP blocks. The code generates unique hostnames and is very
suitable for netblocks that do not fall on an octet boundary. I wrote a
full program to automate the DNS zone building techniques mentioned in this
article. Also, I do know that there are a couple of typos in the document,
including a never ending while loop code example. I've had a couple of
problems submitting changes to the editors.
Print Articles
- Designing A Scalable News Server Network
- SysAdmin Magazine (Dec 2000)
Advice on how to expand a network of NNTP servers. My first published article
ever.
- A Framework For Jumpstart Begin/Finish Scripts
- SysAdmin Magazine (Oct 2001)
Probably my favorite article. This came from the work I did rebuilding a
Jumpstart environment that resulted in a three-fold performance increase
in network install time.
- Instant Messaging With Jabber
- SysAdmin Magazine (Jan 2002)
A brief rundown on the Jabber server, how to install it, and a few useful
features that would be beneficial to sysadmins.