Who is Adrian Hannah?
Adrian was a poor college kid living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan trying to make a living as a System Administrator. Now he's a struggling new hire at a software firm in New York, but he's still trying to make a living as a system administrator.
Tag Archives: system administration
Work: 5 Nov 2008
Remember remember the fifth of November, the day we had intermittent network problems and DCS broke our NFS configuration on boston. The wikis and www.we were down as soon as I got to work this morning, it turns out that … Continue reading
Work: 4 Nov 2008
James figured out how to make the LDAP authentication plugin for the wikis work. It required and upgrade to apache2. I upgraded help.we and abyss.we and finished the migration of the wikis from askel to boston. A slight modification in … Continue reading
Work: 2-Jul-2008
We met with Jeff from Opus Web this morning about doing the front end of research.me and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed. He knew what he was talking about, he asked some good questions, and he showed … Continue reading
Work: 1-Jul-2008
I started imaging the window machines in Superior, as of right now it will take roughly 6 hours to complete so I will look into it tomorrow and verify that it worked. Askel has been having a problem recently where … Continue reading
Work: 27-Jun-2008
I mostly worked on transferring the new image to chef. I will start the transfer to the window machines in Superior as soon as I get done posting. Marlene had some questions about how to do things with the Admin … Continue reading
Work: 3-Apr-2008
Over the last few weeks, I (and most of my coworkers) have noticed a significant increase in load times on all the wikis and the main web page. Logically, this meant that something was amiss on askel (which was running … Continue reading
Work: 3/24/2008
Being that recently James made me the root alias for askel, I have been getting several error messages due to cron jobs, etc. The first of these message was an error stating: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: Ignoring httpd.rpmnew, because of .rpmnew ending … Continue reading
Work: 18-Mar-2008
I had a better idea about the way to store author link information in the research.me database. It will be done like keywords. It will be a little more intensive, but not by much and it will take less maintenance … Continue reading
Work: 14-Mar-2008
I was asked to edit a photo by the Chem Eng faculty today. It was a picture of one of the faculty members that is on medical leave right now, and they want to make a goofy cardboard cutout of … Continue reading