Hey all, just wanted to catch everyone up on a few topics.  It’s been busy around the Juvinall household:

 - Yesterday was technology day.  We ended up severing ties with our dear ‘friends’ Verizon; we switched to vonage.  Along with that, I followed the instructions on their site and made our house into a closed loop.  If you cut your physical connection to Verizon, you can plug your vonage router into a phone jack in your house and suddenly all of your phones are vonage phones; it’s very cool.  We also bought an iMac this year; yes, an iMac.  Last night, after some struggle, I finally finished configuring it (it always is a struggle in a paradigm shift). We are owners of a computer manufactured by Apple…wow, I said it. I hear admitting it is a first step.

 - Lord willing, we’ll have some big news to announce soon. Pray for us if you think about it, we’re trying to make something logistically work that will be…big.

 - Along with that, Sunday was one of those Spirit filled days at Church where God really affirmed alot of things in our hearts.  The talk is available here, and it was about God’s will for us, and death and doing your life well.  Great stuff; we sang ‘We Rest On Thee’ afterwards, which, if one could have them, is our theme song as a couple (like Over The Rhine’s music, that song factors in a couple of key moments for us in our marriage).  Anyway, couldn’t sing the second or third verse just for weeping; the Pastor led and I have to wonder what he was thinking. It’s a balm to have God really challenge, convict and encourage you all at the same time. 

We go in faith, our own great weakness feeling,
And needing more each day Thy grace to know:
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing,
“We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.”
Yet from our hearts a song of triumph pealing,
“We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go.”

A series I started way back in March of this year is beginning to wrap itself up as I push the project into production.

You may remember the purpose of this is to give a bit of a primer and ethnography, of sorts, from a primairly Microsoft, IIS world to a Linux/Apache world.

Well, recently the second server came in and I’ve been getting heartbeat up and rolling.  The complex thing about this is that the nics that service the shared IP address must be in the same slot and referenced the same (i.e. eth0) otherwise sadness will occur. 

After the fold, a brief overview of heartbeat and a plea for questions.

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In the OMGoodness, it just keeps on coming catagory:

I’m redoing rsync today and wanted to get a couple of things down for you cats.  This is the way we mirror our website:

Staging Server (privately addressed)

I have /etc/rsyncd.conf setup and reads as follows

gid = users
read only = true
use chroot = true
max connections = 3
transfer logging = true
log format = %h %o %f %l %b
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
hosts allow = private side of the DMZ (allows for only one connection from this IP addy only…)
slp refresh = 300

[module name for rsync]
path = /srv/www/htdocs
comment = My Workplace’s website
list = yes
auth users = the name of the dummy account I chose to make the move with.  Doesn’t need to ‘exist’
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

and I have rsyncd running

Front ends:

cront job that runs the following every minute:

rsync –password-file=’/home/rsync.pass’ -avz account@ipaddress of target server::rsyncentry for module –address private side of DMZ –delete /srv/www/htdocs

I’m no fool. We’re putting multiple ip addresses on our web presence and I noticed a quirk in SUSE this afternoon. Even though the additional addresses are in the same subnet and have the same gateway information as the other address I noticed that the secondary addys wouldn’t route outside of the subnet :\. After beating on it for most of this afternoon, I discovered a bit of a quirk. In order to get the second address to route I had to delete the default gateway and put in the secondary address and then re-enable the default gateway. It worked after that…

*sigh*

UPDATE: add one more step on. You need to remote into the IP Address that you’re adding when you put in N+1 IP Addresses and turn back on the default gateway. And who said Linux wasn’t quirky…

We just got back from a concert tonight at the Jesus House in Bloomington.  Glen Kaiser, a chicago-based preacher/musician/blues king, gave a benefit concert in support of a new missions project that JPUSA is doing.  We brought Aidan because he has a passion about live music and has enjoyed blues music since last summer.  Tonight was no great exception; Glen is a talented musician and shortly after he started Aidan was really into the music.  Of course, being so close to his beadtime we lsated about midway through the set before we had to beat a hasty retreat.

There were two things that made tonight really a unique experience.  At one point, Aidan was acting up and I had to take him back to the back of the room.  As I looked around the room watching people enjoy, listen, and worship to the music that was being played I noticed something beautiful.  There are so many people that come to the Jesus house that come from different economic backgrounds and are down on their luck.  What the Jesus house people do is love well and give of all that they are and expect nothing in return.  What was beautiful was that I sat there and watched the diversity of God’s kingdom in the people from the west side of bloomington sitting next to people from the east side and it was a beautifully painted picture of how we are all desperately in need of a savior.

The other unique thing was that during one the mini sermons that Glen was giving he mentioned Bill Gates and how us not making our faith active is kind of like Bill giving someone 100 bucks; it’s really nothing for him to do that.  Faith calls for action, real action.  Well, after going on for a second about the richest man in the world, Glen commented ‘Maybe that’s why I like Linux’.  I really wonder about how well Linux is penetrating the market and culture when a blues guy starts talking about using Linux…I wonder if a change is a comin?