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
