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

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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

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Work: 21-25 Jul 2008

For the most part this week I worked on commenting code and writing wiki articles for tools and scripts I’ve written for WECN.  Its an old habit from when I was in the Marine Corps of “What happens if you … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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