Installed htop
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Installed htop on moodle servers for better process monitoring. For CentOS got rpm here: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/htop/htop-0.7-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm htop documentation
Archive for March, 2008
Installed htop on moodle servers for better process monitoring. For CentOS got rpm here: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/htop/htop-0.7-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm htop documentation
Upgrade client to 1.9
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Upgraded client Moodle to 1.9 Currently client is running 1.8.3+ so upgrade shouldn't be too difficult. Client is also running questionnaire module so upgrade that too. Backups backed up datadir: cp -a datadir datadir.bak.20080306.vri backed up codebase: cp -a codebase codebase.bak.20080306.vri backed up database: mysqldump -u moodleuser --password=pw --single-transaction -C -Q -e -a moodle > ...
Create Custom Report
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008created custom report in Moodle 1.9. The new gradebook provides a nice new API to create custom reports. There is even a nice gradebook report tutorial on the moodle site. The idea is that a teacher can view the anonymous results of scorm pacakges. Like 45 of 60 people finished SCORM ...
MySQL / Database performance
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008On the excellent MySQL performance blog there are two intersting feeds about hardware performance, more specifically RAID performance: RAID system performance surprises Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs
Back to Work
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Read a ton of emails. Installed git on my laptop. Read the git tutorial. Found the Debian wiki. Lots of useful information Debian Security HOWTO, planned a day to work through that list, apply to CentOS Installed dev version of Moodle 1.9 for future client. Will run on dedicated server in production.
