Archive for October, 2007

Getting Men and Mice to work on OpenBSD

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Men and Mice is a product that manages DNS, and runs on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

I wanted to have it manage our OpenBSD name servers, so I wrote them asking if they had tried it. The wrote back saying they couldn’t get it to work.

So I tried my hand, and had to do the following:

-creat a separate partition for /var/named/dev that could be used to create the arandom device that named uses

-install the fedora_base package for linux emulation

-modify the install script to recognize openbsd

-modify the startup script to recognize openbsd

run it.

Works :)

A picture for our blog

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Shoshone Power Plant Pipe RuptureNow we just need to figure out how to post a picture.

This is the ruptured pipe that shut down the power plant, corrosion over time weakened the pipe. It was hard to get a good shot while driving 55 on the Interstate.