Each LISA brings a new challenge or two…or four…so far. The conference network started out barely usable, then went offline entirely twice, then came back up with sporadic outages before finally performing acceptably. I feel like I owe an explanation, so here goes.
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The other day I received my shiny new copy of Windows 7 Enterprise. Now, while new OS’s don’t necessarily drive me, I needed to spend some time on this to test an X-Windows product we use a lot– ahead of time– for the users’ sake. (X-Win32). (Yes, I know, typical users and lots of x-windows…..
We have a very specific short-term need: deploy a system into a room without network access so that a building automation system can be installed and the host machine can be accessed remotely. Givens: * A network will be installed into this room, but not soon enough for the need for building automation system hardware….
As our technology grows, along with pieces-parts from multiple vendors, so does our job as the technical equivalent of Dr. House. In many ways, what we do as sysadmins is very very similar to that popular TV show (which, by the way, is one of my favorites – his crankiness is something I intend to…
OK, so today I totally ignored my own methods of doing stuff. Specifically, as a sysadmin, I not only have to update systems all the time (that is, software, packages, updates, patches, etc) – but I also have to keep on top of firmware updates. I suspect many or most of you do the same….
Some of you have been doing LDAP for a long time. And, some of you (like me) may be relatively new to the game. (Can I help it if I like NIS? – it’s simple, and it WORKS). But- various regulatory issues and security flaws require that we all move to something better, which is…
Many, many, many thanks to our awesome volunteers who helped David Parter and I with the LOPSA booth: Scott Schmitz, DJ Gregor, Stephen Potter and Charles Johnson. I am very happy with the number of people we connected with. We have a list of 25 people who are interested in A Columbus local LOPSA group….
Download xtrlock source code from the Debian project (I used http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xtrlock/) xmkmf make make install Then, take the first of the two gcc commands that were run by make, and rerun it manually, but add -DSHADOW_PWD to the defines section of the command line (-Dthis -Dthat -DSHADOW_PWD). (I tried to muck around with the 1000+…
Today I am going to TRY to start logging a daily blog entry. I’ll add more info about myself later, but I am essentially a sysadmin generalist. That means I manage a LOT of stuff, and I don’t necessarily specialize in ONE particular thing. My blog entries are going to be totally random– mostly tech…
We are migrating from our old mail server to a new one with a completely different internal structure and many new features. I am using imapsync to migrate the data over (slow, but it works well). Before we do the last sync, my boss asked me to figure out a way to run the servers…