Mike Dawson did the early detective work for this: A message from Larry Baldwin that we need the XMLWriter class compiled into PHP to enable a feature that he wants. Is that hard to arrange? The word “compile” scares me … Continue reading
Brian Tjaden was having some trouble with CGI scripts running on Puma and on Tempest. Since the trouble was also on Puma, we could ignore selinux as the problem. He could run simple CGI/Python scripts, but the trouble came when … Continue reading
I fixed the quota scripts. In /home/sysadmin/quota_near and quota_over I added a concatenation onto a log file, /var/log/quota_near.log and quota_over.log for the good/useful echo statements. And then I copied the scripts into /root/bin for use. I also took out a … Continue reading
Irwin recently experienced one of those random crashes and currently is in a bad state. One symptom: [root@tempest ~] ssh irwin Last login: Tue Dec 11 14:31:20 2012 from puma.wellesley.edu [root@irwin ~] getent passwd anderson So, somehow one of the … Continue reading
CentOS Screen of Death! I left some nice notes around the microfocus. Including one on the white board saying “Please do not reboot ANY of these machines unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. Questions/comments/tell us why you want to reboot the machine: CS-SysAdmin@wellesley.edu” … Continue reading