Whoa! After two years and change, I'm back! Again! Hopefully, for good this time.

My new server (at work) will be delivered on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. I'll be using it as a dedicated MySQL database server. Hopefully, it will serve well all our payment centers along with the main offices, once I get them all connected. I'm so excited about that... :-)

I've learned a lot about Linux since my last post. Well, I should, it's been two years!

Unfortunately, I cannot recall everything at the moment to blog it. :-(

Suffice it to say, though, that one doesn't need certifications to be able to administer and maintain a few mission-critical servers successfully and reliably.

Wow, it's been several months since I started this blog (and my 2nd and last post, hehe)!

I've been pretty busy at work, that's why I couldn't even post here.

I've not learned a new "thing" about Linux, but I have been slowly but steadily learning more on the existing apps/tools on my servers.

Soon, I will install Linux on one of my home computers, so I can learn faster.

During my hiatus of 7+ months I attempted to install MRTG on our office gateway, but I couldn't finish it, because my web server is BEHIND my gateway/firewall machine, and my users should be able to access their mail thru the internet. My firewall rules include ROUTING web requests from the external network to the internal web server.

I hope I can get more help on this soon, I want to see graphs of our bandwidth usage, they'd be kewl to show my boss. :-)

Oh, by the way, I also created a tripod-hosted weblog 'coz I lost the link to this one. That blog will contain all my accomplished tasks at the office, for my boss to see (that I am a good sys admin). Check it out : my Tripod weblog.

So, it's time to log my linux experience yesterday.

I was trying to install NIS in preparation for separating the web and email server from our file server. I followed instructions on the HOWTO file I've downloaded. I've finished the master server side, but when I was configuring the first NIS slave server, I got to the part where I needed to create a startup file or something, using nisinit, but I couldn't find it anywhere!

That's it. I think I really am being forced to learn LDAP... It just seems so difficult to learn, I don't know where to begin!

Okay, so I've bitten the bullet and signed up with Blogger for my own blog. Sadly, though, I found the free time to do this signing up just after office hours, so now I don't have time to do my intended post.

So I guess I'll start tomorrow afternoon, as I am on leave for the morning for my firstborn's First Communion. Initially I didn't want to attend it because of so much work at the office, but now that I've blogged it, I think it's cool to witness him take his first host. :-)

That's it, cya tomorrow.