Archive for April, 2010

Script to generate bind zone file

I have written up a small perl script which can be used to generate a zone file for your domain. This is useful if you have no control panel on your server and wish to create valid zone files easily. By default, the zone file is printed into the screen (which you can easily redirect [...]

High I/O Wait? Don’t always blame it on the hard drive

Recently my friend was complaining about his new OpenVZ main node server taking a lot of i/o resources even though no VPS were running on it. He was blaming it on the datacenter guys for giving him faulty hard disk and wanted me to check and confirm. With iostat and lsof commands, it didn’t took [...]