I’ve had quite a busy week as i had to go to uni on monday and then had a job interview tuesday and its the last week before people go off to uni so a last chance to see some friends for a while. I’m still no further forward with my test machine’s problems. It seems ubuntu is not suitable for the job at all. I’m probably going to decide on and buy a monitor for the machine in the next few days and it will become my main box, probably likely running slackware because slackware is not plauged by broken software. I cannot believe that a modern linux distribution would have trouble staying awake on an AMD 64 X2 that is brand new.

i’m not sure why but currently the machine i use to work on webcp keeps cutting out over the network…. it’s not an overheating problem and its happening with either of the two 3com 3c905 10/100Mbps network cards in there….. i can’t check it at the moment because it hasn’t got it’s own monitor (been meaning to buy one for a while). Its running ubuntu and shows no signs of whats up.. i’ll boot it up and check the sys log to see if there’s anything helpful.. Maybe the network cards are to blame because i’ve seen a freeze before with completely different hardware in the machine except those cards. It has onboard LAN as a backup anyway.

On another note I changed the backups code recently (just after i got it working pretty well) to use arrays to keep track of what backup archives are being dealt with, its not working well though. I was attempting to solve the problem of how to move the data about backups around between webcp hooks but i think my only option is to serialize individual parts.
EdG