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
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
Today I reinstalled CentOS on Minnow. and I ran the part1 script. And I ran the part2 script. And I ran the part3 script. And I rebooted. And it went back to the awful screen. 🙁 So I tried installing … Continue reading
Today I worked to get the two machines that weren’t working to be dual boot, to be single boot into linux. I installed CentOS all fine and dandy. Ran the first install script fine. But then the second install script … Continue reading