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
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
Today I logged into all of the apes that are dual boot (booted them in linux and checked if I could login) Name Baboon Lemur Gibbon Tamarin Gorilla Chimp Login? yes yes yes yes yes No, see later OS F14 … Continue reading
I switched the sshkeys for the new machines mv /root/sshkeys/ballroom.wellesley.edu/ssh /root/sshkeys/iguana.wellesley.edu and then check and make sure all the permissions are right in the files. And I removed all of the old, now empty directories. and changed the names in … Continue reading
Apparently Tyler gave his 349B students last semester access to another large drive that was mounted in their /home directories. Now when they do “quota” it doesn’t give an accurate reading. I tried to read the quota script, but it … Continue reading
I’m working on installing Prolog on the linux machines for Eni’s class use. I was following the instructions from http://www.swi-prolog.org/build/Redhat.html . I skipped the dependencies part because it seemed like we already had most of those packages, maybe I’ll go … Continue reading