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The Moodle configuration check suggests quite a few packages to be installed: yum -y install php-soap php-intl Oh, and don’t forget (I did, at first): apachectl graceful  

After installing Moodle, I went to the main URL and it automatically ran some checks, the first of which failed.  The message in horrible (or at least, noticeable) red, is this: It is required that you store all your data … Continue reading →

We followed the instructions for installing Moodle from here:  http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Installing_Moodle with some small variations: 1. We created a “moodle” user and installed the software as that user: useradd_faculty moodle su – moodle git clone -b MOODLE_24_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git mv moodle/* public_html/ … Continue reading →

There’s a small but useful package in Fedora called “pwgen”; it generates random passwords.  I’ve used it to generate random passwords for MySQL accounts, for example. (My reasoning is that those passwords often end up in PHP scripts and such, … Continue reading →

Querying the RPM database is harder than I’d expect.  I was having trouble with cups, and so I thought I’d verify the package, in case some file was missing or had the wrong permissions: [root@tempest ~] rpm -V cups .M…….  … Continue reading →

In installing selenium and pymongo on the clients, I discovered some errors in some of the scripts in /usr/network/scripts/parts that install python packages: For python 2.7, site-packages has moved from /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages.  Note the /local/ in the path.  That’s … Continue reading →

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 →