I’m old enough now to think about death personally. As in, my own. When people I know or even people my age that I don’t know die now, it’s much more meaningful to me that it was when I was younger. A man in Greenland, NH, a town not far from where we live, shot [...]
Yes, we all “hate” SELinux. But, as I tell my kids, “hate” probably really means this: prefer not to use it because it stops me doing things and since I don’t know how to manage it, I can’t do anything but turn it off entirely and feel dumb about it…. However, it’s probably actually a good [...]
From an e-mail I wrote today to a colleauge confused about character encodings. We copied a bunch of files from an old HPUX web server to a new RHEL server running modern Apache. The files viewed from the new server have the dread black diamonds all over the place and he is trying to understand [...]
I’m deploying a Cisco Unified Wireless Network at the office. It’s a cool, but complex beast. Along the way, I’m learning lots and lots of stuff…. one of which is how to use RADIUS to authenticate users. It’s an old but great protocol. In my situation, I want the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) to [...]
Some fellows in another office asked for help figuring out why the CGI script they were writing wouldn’t run. Yesterday, I’d helped them find that the interpreter named on the she-bang line (#!) of their scripts didn’t exist and I’d recommended they use “#!/usr/bin/env perl” instead. They did, but wrote the test.cgi script in notepad [...]
Draft of notes so I don’t loose the method. On CentOS 5.0 from 2005. Xen vm images in /xenvms Task: extend the databases vm from 5 G to 56 GB. This wasn’t hard once I learned how to do it. However, in this case, there were only two partitions on the device: p1: root and [...]
A long time ago, someone compiled from source and then installed samba 3.0.7 in /opt/csw on a Solaris 8 machine we have. I surmize that the person ran ./configure with “–prefix=/opt/csw” Today we wanted to do “net ads join” and couldn’t. We got /etc/krb5/krb5.conf right, we know it because kinit would work. But the /opt/csw/bin/net [...]
Sauron seems cool. Been out of development for a while. I’ve installed 0.7.3 on a server at work to try it out. It’s an IPAM – IP Address Management system that also writes BIND and ISC DHCP configs and zone files. Backed by PostgreSQL. Looks like it can manage a bunch of servers for us. [...]
I use blosxom as a simple blog at work. I have two bash functions that allow me to use the blog as a timelog. Whenever I change workstations, my blog breaks for a while until I get around to relearning how to setup cgi for user directory’s. This time, I’m writing it down! First, make [...]
One of our developers is using openSuSE 11.2 as his desktop machine and reported that xemacs from RPM xemacs-21.5.29.b604d235f028-1.1.1.x86_64 wasn’t working. As soon as you start it, the status line at the bottom displays: Loading this file requires xemacs, (null(function-max-args ‘throw)) I goggled that and found a thread on the opensuse forums recommending we: zypper in [...]