• 10-2006

October 2006

Tuesday, Oct 31st (halloween!)

• made sure biglist/getclextr etc is working OK
• figured out what's up with perl /usr/local/var/jobs/newstu.pl
• filed leave thing for flea emergency
• Made sure account adder on Arthur makes new accounts have 100Mb quota
• worked on switching prngrabber from windows to wine

Monday, Oct 30th

• Sick day - Flea emergency at home

Friday, Oct 27th

• Half Day - Fighting Fleas!
• Fixed class list on tintin
• Increased storage for web users
  • Removed conveinience mirrors
  • made yum use public mirrors
  • increased everyone's quota to 100Megs

Thurs, Oct 26th

• re-added Larry stuff to dhcp
• Fix Kevin's dhcp tool

Wed, Oct 25th

• Researched ways to give web users more disk space
• Experimented with RCS and /etc files
• fixed prngrabber/babar team instructor account stuff

Tues, Oct 24th

• Set up prngrabber and babar to combine INC3 and INC2 lists
• quieted down proftp log
• researched some way to track changes to /etc files - RCS?

Mon, Oct 23rd

• reset HP3K password
• reset HP3K password on Prngrabber
• fixed edison tape
• fixed tintin backup
• ready to proxy from arthur to tintin
• organized and normalized all backups
  • babar
  • celeste
  • arthur
  • tintin
• made mutt read html web pages

Fri, Oct 20th

• fixed bl to arthur
• fixed cfrun on arthur1
• fixed babar backup
• made sure marlinspike won't reboot to 2.6.18 by default
• more progress on proxying from arthur to tintin

Thurs, Oct 19th

• rebooted
  • edison1
  • zephir
  • prngrabber
• made prngrabber happy with 2.6.18
• ordered openbsd 4.0 disks
• lots of work on proxying from arthur to tintin

Wed, Oct 18th

• made backups of tintin
• made sure 2.6.18 raid5 bug and workaround are reported
• made arthur1 stop trying to backup to edison
• made it so arthur1 can backup to edison1 if need be
• quieted down biglist to arthur scp (account on edison = _bl4arthur)
• made sure cfrun works
• removed meself from many email lists
• added ONSITE thing to edison1
• researched vmware 2.6.18 problem
• started working on how to proxy from arthur to tintin

Tues, Oct 17th

• rebooted waldoa
• rebooted linux boxen
  • marlinspike
  • tintin
  • arthur1
  • babar
  • arthur2
  • edison2
• discovered and found work around for bug in upgrade from 2.6.17 to 2.6.18 kernel when raid5 in use

Mon, Oct 16th

• fixed webalizer on edison1 again
• fixed edison http logrotate
• updated patches installed
• installed imapfilter to filter my email
• Web Redundancy
  • made sure rsync services are the same
  • made sure rsync grabbers are the same
  • figured out how to forbid ssh to everyone but me
  • Set up nagios on arthur2

Fri, Oct 13th

• openbsd errata
• Made mutt do imap
• Nagios
  • added prngrabber
  • re-enabled zephir
  • added checkweb stuff for Zephir

Thurs, Oct 12th

• Added DNS entry for Hingis
• More fixes based on insecurity emails
• Wrote a better way to stop processes in cfrun - killify.pl
• Added checkweb stuff for tintin

Wed, Oct 11th

• fixed webalizer freaking on edison1 - httpd.conf had bad logfile name

• made mac account stuff happen after edison account stuff

• Fixed waldob inability to connect to internet
• updated patches_installed
• worked on fixing problems pointed out by daily insecurity emails

Tuesday, Oct 10th

• minor stuff
  • added mysqlshell stuff for drama guy
  • made mac_accounts not so verbose
  • changed edison tape
  • changed arthur password
  • changed zephir password
  • fixed edison1 logrotate

• fixed state problem with tintin & firewalls

• fixed mod_rewrite thing for Shelly ( Woo hoo! )
• updated httpd and openssl on openbsd

Mon, Oct 9th

• Banged head against rewrite problems on tintin - looks like firewall/tcp problem

Thur, Oct 5th

• fixed pstest failing on openbsd boxen - problem was in sccc::util
• changed old passwords
• filed leave for 1/2 day last week
• quieted down yum on marlinspike and tintin
• fixed tintin and marlinspike daily maintainance stuff (yum updates etc..)
• bridges
  • updated static mac addresses in bridge configs
  • added gsr to static mac address table
  • turned off learn on external interface
• made it so infoserver can start on reboot!

Wed, Oct 4th

• wrote scrubbie() for Shelly - scrubs out funny apostrophes
• turned off errata alerts
• fixed pam silly ldap on arthur1!
• fixed sccc::util installer

Tuesday, Oct 3rd

• rebooted everyone (that was a big job!)

Monday, Oct 2nd

• verified/fixed hostname as correct for smtp HELO on all machines

• set all dmartin & root accounts to forward to me

• verified all machines can send email to me, fixed a few
• a few little clean up things
  • quotanotice.pl output to log instead of email
  • zephir cfrun was runnig twice a night

• started work on killify.pl - a more cautious killall - for use in cfrun