When Karishma and I came back to Lemur today, we found that the local user account was impossible to get into, the password was not what we had set it to, so we logged in as root and changed luser’s … Continue reading
I’ve been working the past couple weeks on updating the quota_near script. In the last edition, the bash script would get hung on an awk command because it would just keep reading. So I’ve updated the script, and written it … Continue reading
Whenever you open firefox on a client, it asks you if you want to update firefox. But normal users don’t have the power to update firefox on the machine. So I went through and did that. First I updated firefox … Continue reading
For the Boston Preliminary Programming contest (BOSPRE), we set up an account where email to the account sends the email to a printer. That’s how teams get printouts of their draft code. The basic setup is pretty straightforward, and is … Continue reading
Karishma and I updated papercut last weekend. This was relatively simple but a good exercise for a new SysAdmin. First I copied all of the configurations from irwin onto tempest. An LTS person had updated irwin to papercut, so we … Continue reading
Installed node.js on Tempest using the directions here https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation and the directions in the README file in the source tarball, available here: http://nodejs.org/download/ By default, it installs into /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/lib/node_modules and /usr/local/lib/dtrace. So that I could play with it, … Continue reading
The warning errors I was getting when I tried to login as edavis5: Authentification failure. And then getting in as luser: /usr/network not available! Contact your System Administrator. On Cardinal, ifconfig showed that it wasn’t connected to the internet. ifup … Continue reading
During my meeting with Scott, we rebooted puma since it had been up for 258 days and /archives wouldn’t mount. It went down with relatively few complaints (/var, ipmapd, …). But then coming back up it complained about being able … Continue reading
For Lyn’s CS 118 class he wants to get Python CGI scripts on tempest working. So he changed the SE Linux permissions for httpd_can_network_connect. This also solved the problem we were having with Eni’s PHP/python scripts working on puma but … Continue reading
Consider the following trivial PHP script: <?php if( $rv = mail(“scott.anderson@wellesley.edu”, “test email from PHP”, “body of message” ) ) { echo “Success!”; } else { echo “Failed: $rv\n”; } ?> When I ran this, either from the command line … Continue reading