Update: These in­struc­tions have been superseded by a more recent project. Please do not regard these as anything but an ancient curiosity. ;)

All in­struc­tions are based on the more detailed in­struc­tions at the djb way.

Dae­mon­tools

Add a group for multilog to be a member of:

# pw groupadd nofiles

Add a user for multilog use only:

# pw useradd multilog -c "multilog user" -g nofiles -d /nonexistant -s /nonexistant

Anytime a log run file is created, append s2097152 to the portion multilog multilog t. For example:

exec setuidgid multilog multilog t /var/multilog/mathopd

would become

exec setuidgid multilog multilog t s2097152 /var/multilog/mathopd

Install using the in­struc­tions here. After executing

# mkdir /var/multilog

execute

# 

Ok, looks like the first part of operation server transfer is complete: The server in Alaska is accessible again, and I'm in the process of down­load­ing everything now. It will take a while to transfer, and while that happens, well, everything is on hold.

I should have all mail services up and running by tomorrow evening (most of it is up right now, but needs to be tested). If you had an email address on weller-kin, and you're wondering what happened to it, contact me at: dave dash weller dash kin at weller dash fahy dot com.

Patience is a virtue, and impati... never mind.

Server will be up/down/then up again for the next two days.

Looks like the entirety of the United States Code has been released under the Creative Commons Licence by Cornell Law School's Legal In­for­ma­tion Institute in XML format. For the unini­ti­at­ed, that means it is ex­tra­or­di­nar­i­ly easy to write filters to produce HTML output, PDF output, PostScript output. Also, searching becomes a bit easier. An HTML version is available online for free, so go check out "the law".

My old server (the one serving this web page right now, as a matter of fact) is sitting in Alaska right now, doing a bang-up job of keeping things online. However, it is in Alaska, and I am here in Germany. That makes it difficult to keep all services online while it's moved. Thus there is a need for (queue music) "The New Server".

This time I decided to go for re­li­a­bil­i­ty and redundancy instead of con­ve­nience. For those people who haven't observed me during the design and building of a new computer... well, hrmmm... the spectacle has been described as something like watching sharks …continue.

Back online, after only a bit of waiting. Can't wait to catch up on my... ummm... how many thousand... large amount of email! 3 Mb/s pipe, and it only took 3 weeks to activate! ;)

Anywho, now I'll have to dig through the forums to see what I've missed.

If anyone wants our home/cell numbers over here, then let me know through email.

We're moving into the house today! Woohoo! Un­for­tu­nate­ly that means no internet for a while (until Deutsche Telekom gets us set up with res­i­den­tial phone, internet, and 'handys'). I'll be back online within a week (hopefully) and I should be able to keep up with email from Mike's house. Catch you all on the flip-side.

We arrived (exhausted) at 0813 yesterday morning. Mike, Connie and Craig picked us up at the airport. Customs was a breeze. We're very tired. Oh, and we found a house already (2300 square feet, so you people that want to come visit don't have an excuse!). Steak is nummy. ;)

I believe that the shock has set in. More later.

Christy and I fly out of Oklahoma City today, des­ti­na­tion Brussels. We'll send out a blanket email when we get set up in Germany. Take care, and see you on the other side of the pond!

I've been playing around with the CSS for the site, and found an annotated WP layout file on Nuclear Moose's website. It's a handy reference, but I think it would be more useful if the commentary were actually enclosed in CSS comments. To that end, I've copied the relevent text and enclosed the ex­pla­na­tions in comments. Here's my commented version. Hope this helps someone get a handle on layout in WP (I know it's taking me long enough).