January 2007 Archives

I picked up a new refrigerator (Kenmore Elite Side by Side) at the Sears clearance center at a very nice price yesterday. My other refrigerator is in passable shape but the compressor was a bit loud. I 'm sure all my former fridge needed was some cleaning underneath to get it in good shape but since I may be getting one in about a month or so anyway I made the purchase.

My new place will have all white appliances so I wanted get that plus the same features I currently have like water in the door and ice. Well the new fridge has that plus auto lighting in the ice & water area, counts the amount of water dispensed with your choice of measurement, ie.. ounces, cups or liters.

The new fridge also has an ice bucket you can easily take off for parties drinks etc.. and a ton of other great features in the refrigerator area that someone who cooks quite a bit like I do would enjoy like a see through bin in the meat locker so I can remember to cook the meats there or freeze it.

I also finally trimmed the bottom of the cabinet that the refrigerator sits underneath so it could fit fully beneath the spot in the kitchen it was intended to sit in. When I installed my slate rock flooring in the kitchen it raised the floor level just enough so that my former or current fridge would not fit beneath it.

Thank goodness this cabinets is at the end of the wall so the cuts were easier but not easy.

Anyway I now have my former fridge in the garage and my new fridge has taken over after its 24 hour acclimation period.

Now I don't have to listen to a loud compressor while trying to watch TV or listen to my late night slow jams on my Internet radio show @ http://www.dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/

Well I knew I had been lagging in my work outs, ok not working out, so I knew I was out of shape but wow today it really hit home.

Everyone has a barometer to go by that tells them the shape they are in, my barometer is running distance & pace.

Well today my pace for one mile was as bad as I thought it would be but the second mile was horrible.

In fact I'm embarrassed to say that I ran one mile walked a lap on the quarter mile track and then ran my second ragged mile.

Well this is only a start with the running as I have been doing cardio indoors on my elliptical trainer but that's just for convenience when I cannot get out to run. For me only a run can tell my true physical shape and I have a ways to go before I'm where I like to be.

Even though my strength is not so far out of whack my criteria for being in shape is the formula of high flexibility, strength, cardio mixed in with the mental mind and body are one philosophy.

As I have done since junior high it's I'm really ramping up to that all encompassing Darryl Hoytt all around shape and the work has begun!

Feel that burn baby burn!

Yes I had been living with a sendmail hang on my web server since I removed my second NIC (network interface card). I do not reboot much but I had some time and thought it would be nice to insure that my web server boots up quickly and with the sendmail hang of several minutes it was not a very fast process.

The first thing I had noticed was that the second NIC eth1 was still being called upon during the boot up process. I had removed the entry from /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices, /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default but it was still being referenced somewhere.

After looking in /dev & /proc for references of eth1 I finally saw a directory in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and found a reference to eth1 with all of the settings of the removed NIC.

I removed the eth1 script text file from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and rebooted the box and no longer had eth1 referenced only eth0 the only physical NIC on the system.

Now even though I no longer had eth1 showing up during boot I still experienced a hang on boot when the system started the sendmail server and client daemons.

Well obviously there was another reason and I found that reason in /etc/hosts. It seems that /etc/hosts did not have my local loopback defined any longer I corrected my local loopback, using one of my other Linux systems as reference to look like the following:

localhost.localdomain localhost

I did the reboot on my system and it came up so fast starting the sendmail daemons along the way I was barely able to see them referenced on the screen during the boot process.

Now that the sendmail issue was fixed there had to be other issues associated with the system resolving correctly and I soon found the issue. Now I could not log into my mysql database instance for my blogs.

Trying to login to my blog I got the infamous Bad ObjectDriver config: Connection error: Access denied for user 'NNNN'@'ip.adress' (using password: YES).

I wanted to write this post and could not login initially. This became an issue because I used to have the two NICs and pointed separate databases to be accessed off of the two different NICs but I used the same username but different passwords for that username depending on the NIC you were accessing the database from.

So for this Mysql login issue I went and deleted the Mysql user pointed to the now removed NIC and changed the user to access from the NIC now on the system and changed the file on Movabletype to the password of the username on my current NIC eth0.

Now I can login ok to my blogs as you can see and sendmail no longer hangs on boot! Now its time for me to check my other database instances to insure they work ok as well

Just an update on what happened with my championship Fantasy football games I won both championships so basically I won championships in half of my Fantasy football leagues.