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April 29, 2004
Working in Africa (remotely)
The University of Kwazulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa, has been running a snapshot of our code for a few months now. Although we had a consultant do the initial machine build, package install and software configuration they needed someone to help with an Apache issue today. The consultant isn't available, so I got set up on the machine and found myself tinkering with a Linux box halfway around the world.
Had no idea what to expect in terms of connection speed or latency, wasn't terrible. Seemed somewhere slightly faster than a 56K modem (if my memory serves me right).
Easy enough to fix the issue, machine had been power cycled but Apache and MySQL weren't in the startup scripts. Wasn't a startup script in /etc/init.d/ for apache so stuck one there and spent a bit of time looking around, comparing directories to determine where the latest version of the code had been stashed (for doc root).
It's interesting looking at someone else's installation of the code and how it's been tweaked for their purpose. Quickly generates a list of things to do differently in our software development (like moving more things into config variables).
Posted by mike at April 29, 2004 12:00 AM
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