Gentoo on The Comfy Seat

Gentoo & MySQL Binary Logging

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

So, I learned today that the root cause of my site issues was that Gentoo apparently decided to enable binary logging by default yet did not have a max size or may days set in my.cnf like other distros do so, as a result, I had MANY gigabytes of logs which filled up /. Lesson learned. Thanks to Zabbix I knew about the issue straight away and was able to minimize my downtime.

More Monitoring... NOW!

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring this site & it’s server via Zabbix. If I can compile all the pieces of the different guides I used to set it up in between other thing I’ll post it here. Until then, here’s the short version:

ClearOS @ home + v2.0 packages from EPEL = Zabbix server