I updated quota_near.py because I moved the email template from a string within the script to a file separate from this, and it was giving an error of not knowing where that file was (since its pathname was relative). Originally … 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
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
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
Over Spring Break, I tried to look into the Clients Sending Emails problem again. I wrote a script that would ssh into a client and then set all the right things and restart the sendmail service. I tested this script … Continue reading
To allow clients to send mail, you add their address to /etc/mail/relay-domains on tempest, and then editing the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file on the client from DS to DS tempest.wellesley.edu. This worked on boa, because it already had the sendmail service running … Continue reading
I’m looking into the ssh keys issues, and trying to solve it with a script. But the only two I need to solve are cobra and orangutan. But they seem different because edavis5 can ssh into orangutan, but not cobra. … Continue reading
Are complete. And they went smoothly. So now all of those machines are up and running on CentOS 6.3. With their designated IP Addresses.