Eni and I are resuscitating the NY Times scraping project and we want to get some new data. So I’m using the good ol’ trustus account that Olivia, Emily and I used in Tyler’s course last spring. I’ve encountered this … Continue reading
The packages in EPEL (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) depend on the optional subchannel. The directions are https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/11312, and so I enabled the sub-channel for Tempest. I can confirm this by doing: [root@tempest ~] yum repolist Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager … Continue reading
I poked around https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/systems/SystemEntitlements.do for way too long, and couldn’t figure out how to purchase a renewal of our RHEL server support. I finally found https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html and clicked on the “buy online” link at the top. I went to the … Continue reading
Randy just asked me to add Karishma Chadha and Smaranda Sandu to the cs251stu group. There are basically two strategies: 1. edit the /etc/group entry, extract the whole group, use the migrate_group.pl script to convert it to ldif format, then … Continue reading
Upgrading Firefox on a Mac or Windows machine that isn’t shared with others is usually a piece of cake: click on the “upgrade” button that the browser gives you and follow the directions. Upgrading on a Linux workstation, particularly one … Continue reading
Randy recently asked me to add some students to the cs251stu group. There is a script that does that, addLDAPusertogroup.pl, but it (1) doesn’t add anything to the entry in /etc/group, and (2) just appends new members. In this case, the … Continue reading