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January 31, 2007

31. Januar 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Put the RHEL4 uvmvmfix kernel on a few more VMWare RHEL4 guest systems
  • Help with several FP issues related to email problems
  • Document how to install solaris maintenance in the TSG Wiki space
  • Order grounding kits from WrightLine for the racks in Tech Park

January 30, 2007

30. Januar 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Chase the gremlins left over from the SAN hardware failure of Montag.
  • Build RHEL4 kernel with fix for RedHat Bugzilla 197158
  • Install that new kernel on carcajou to verify it actually functions

January 29, 2007

29. Januar 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • LDAP: renamed account still in files -- somehow it wasn't properly cleaned up when the account was renamed on Friday. Clean up the files
  • LDAP: new CatCard feed code development
  • UPS: Schedule with vendor for major PM on Donnerstag (Thursday) 5pm(ish)
  • WrightLine: replace broken monitor support arm

January 26, 2007

26. Januar 2007 -- Freitag

Admin

  • WrightLine side panel installation at Tech Park
  • Meeting with project manager about VACC move to Tech Park

January 25, 2007

25. Januar 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • UPS failure... working with UVM Electrical and the service provider to get the UPS back after it claimed a blown fuse during the weekly generator test
  • Blog:
    • Finally track down the problem to uidnumbers below 500 being the problem.
    • Rebuilt the apache rpm so the suexec command has the proper config to allow our uidnumbers to work

January 24, 2007

24. Januar 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Blog:
    • Replaced the "mt/mt.cgi" file with a simple perl script to basically say "hello" and it still fails -- it has to be an Apache problem
  • virusscan: Updated to have DCE credentials
  • CMD FP Issue -- student with lost iMovieProject
  • DHCP/DNS config for echo

On-Call

  • LDAP: catcard system is being upgraded and delivered a 0 entry file which caused all id card values to be wiped from LDAP. Went back to yesterday's file and restored them. --- 3.5 hours CTE

January 23, 2007

23. Januar 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • New Blog... yippee!
  • shutdown old (now unused) gameserver
  • Reseat blade 10 to clear a spurious memory error!
  • Set up console for last web server
  • Blog:
    • make backup of the OLD server entries
    • delete my blog
    • create a new blog for me
    • Same Internal Error going to log in page! :(
  • Listserv move ... dns and mail routing changes: CTE 1.5 hours

On-Call

January 22, 2007

22. Januar 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • CGI server -- undefined machine check error!
    • 888 102 207 0c0
    • Power cycle
    • ERRPT calls out L2Cache0 FRU: 09P5763 P1
  • Blog server -- can't get in to update my blog
    • Something wrong in MT with the server move
    • Affects 10 blogs out of the 387 I tested
  • Moose filesystems moved
    • Update regular (10 minute interval) cronjob that checked filesystems to ignore the ones that are no longer there
    • Update the account creation scripts to not attempt to use a filesystem that no longer exists
    • Update gnu/elk/gnunew to use the central syslog server instead of moose
    • Move nameserv home directory to consolidate space
  • Check dce group ownership for a customer
  • LDAP: webmail permissions problem
    • Update acl's to allow new webmail server access
    • Update schema for Banner feed change
    • Roll out OpenLDAP 2.3.33
    • CTE: 1.5 hours
  • WrightLine: chasing side panel problem

January 18, 2007

18. Januar 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Report inconsistent network performance on VPN from Waterman Cafe

January 17, 2007

17. Januar 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP: cat card support development

Notes

January 16, 2007

16. Januar 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • LDAP: find a graduate student to match with the PeopleSoft entry that came over without the proper information in it
  • LDAP: test feed to new listserve machine
  • Virtual Host: setting up a new virtual hosting environment

January 9, 2007

9. Januar 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Calendar SDK
    • SDK Support Forum entry unanswered after 24 hours!
    • Opened SR with Oracle
    • While waiting for Oracle to respond to SR, found 9.0.4.2.13 patch and downloaded it.
    • 9.0.4.2.13 included new CAPI libraries -- that fixed the problem!
    • Close SR, update Forum entry with fix

8. Januar 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Tech Park: Meeting/Tour
  • Calendar: SDK CAPI_FetchEventsByRange returning CAPI_STAT_DATA_ICAL_COMPVALUE (AKA: I don't like something but I'm not going to tell you what!)
    • Turns out it is the Holidays... but deleting one and recreating it causes more problems.
    • Temp fix to exclude Holidays, Day Events, and Day Notes from extract

January 4, 2007

4. Januar 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • LDAP: Banner adds NID to entry and we discover a duplicate with an expired entry... abfuscate the expired entry and leave the new one alone (neither one has ever been activated)
  • LDAP: Look at test Banner extract that includes faculty -- oops, multiple views of the same record! How to deal with that???
  • MileStone: This is the 400th blog entry!

January 3, 2007

3. Januar 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP: check out systems after long break
  • VMWare: guest clocks