darkness

My Bronchitis seems to be fading. It’s not gone yet: I’ve still got some great drainage, hacking cough, and other symptoms I won’t entertain you with. It’s fading, though. I’m real tired tonight, of course, and it’s only 0348. Blah.

Took it very easy for most of the days this week. I don’t mind working from bed so much. Things to have in bed when “working” and sick: laptop, book you’re currently reading, TV and DVD remotes, cell phone and headset, Kleenex, bottle of water (I used 1L Rubbermaid bottle), bag for garbage, cardboard tube to hit kitty with when he’s being a bad little Mr. Kitty, and maybe some snacks. Too bad I don’t feel comfortable peeing in bed, otherwise I might never need to get up.

Today’s remembered lesson: ip link set DEVNAME name NEWNAME. I think I may have even logged that in here at one point. I was thinking about it tonight when I was thinking of the problem people have when they have two cards that are detected by the same driver and can’t control which one gets assigned eth0, and which gets eth1 (for example). You could probably do it in a little dance with the above command. Voila.

I want RH 8.1 to be released. Phoebe is in its third beta. I want to install new desktop box. Bastards.

I’m practically overwhelmed with work. One client wants documentation for stuff and is planning to do a project involving me in the next month, another has two or so projects going, trying to install new client, have another client that is expecting a firewall/mail server from me ASAP (I know, putting them both together seems weird, but low cost), and then there’s all the usual stuff. Like the things that are broken at work. Like the mail server that isn’t backing up because, apparently, even the second tape is bad. Or the drive is bad. I hate these Seagate “Travan” drives. They’re shit. Especially the IDE versions: avoid them like the plague.

ObWebLog being basically complete, I think I’m going to go get ready for bed. Tonight’s “darky is sick so he turns on movies as he goes to sleep” flick is… The Matrix.

… Oh, I almost forgot to talk about that DHCP problem I last logged. As it turns out it looks like dhcpcd will reused a cached lease forever if it’s lease time is (surprise) “infinite.” After trying to get ISC dhcpd to hand out infinite leases by using the decimal equivalent of 0xffffffff seconds, I found out that somewhere in dhcpd 3.0 they stuck in the infinite keyword. So I think I have default-lease-time infinite; max-lease-time infinite; in there now. Haven’t tested this at work yet, though. Need to basically block the DHCP server from a particular server, then see what happens when dhcpcd tries to renew. I’ll do it on a Masterswitch’ed server, actually, and leave it running for a few days to see if it crashes. Really, if it were going to crash I’d expect it to do so within a few hours, like the servers apparently did the night the power went out and dhcpd didn’t come back up.