Our main servers are running older versions of Python, which is good and stable for the server, but may not be what users want. In this post, I’m installing another version of Python, specifically 2.7. Since it’s not the standard … Continue reading
I think it makes sense to set up a local mirror/repository for CentOS packages, at least for our workstations. I’m following the directions here, which seem to be quite clear: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror. We can later investigate the option of doing a … Continue reading
Since the CS department website is migrating to Drupal, we have to set up a bunch of re-directs. Why? Because people may have bookmarked pages or otherwise recorded the obsolete URLs to our old site, and we want them to … Continue reading
I wanted to add scponly to Tempest, so it’ll be ready to handle scp/sftp. Ideally, I’d like to load it from RedHat or something like EPEL. I looked in yum for scponly and got the following hit: [root@tempest ~]# yum … Continue reading
Lyn reported that he couldn’t login to the cs117 account and it seems that the password database entries are missing: Something is wrong with account cs117. I tried from root to su to cs117, and was told it doesn’t exist. … Continue reading
Saving a web page to a client (say, Sampras), and then going to cs.wellesley.edu and refreshing the page often fails to get the new files, because of NFS delays. I think the saving is nearly instantaneous I think this is … Continue reading
I needed to install a PEAR package. (PEAR is an internet-based repository of PHP packages.) The installation command failed: # pear install Mail_Mime pear/Mail_Mime requires PEAR Installer (version >= 1.6.0), installed version is 1.4.9 I tried several ways of upgrading … Continue reading