Frank's Activity Log

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

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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

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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

Posted by at 9:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Admin

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

Posted by at 9:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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

Posted by at 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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

Posted by at 9:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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

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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

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Admin

• Report inconsistent network performance on VPN from Waterman Cafe

Posted by at 8:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: cat card support development

Notes

• http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06

Posted by at 8:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by at 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by at 3:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by at 3:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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!

Posted by at 8:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

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

Posted by at 8:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)