Interesting title … 🤷 I’m sitting back home, in my bed, while I’m supposed to be at work. I’m now a certified sicko due to a common cold. Watching the toaster series once again (that’s Battlestar Galactica) and trying to think about some things. Heh, well thinking isn’t the right term; it’s more like meditate over stuff happening in the last few months. Guess this stupid cold is dictating my weekend 😠 and hopefully I’m gonna be better on Monday. Have fun.
OK, so I skipped rebuilding a newer RPM version (for now) and I’m currently rebuilding anything that fit’s into app-dev according to IBM … The list reads like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 $ ls -al ~/app-dev autoconf-2.59-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm automake-1.8.5-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm binutils-2.14-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bison-1.875-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm coreutils-5.2.1-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm cpio-2.5-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm diffutils-2.8.1-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm flex-2.5.4a-6.aix4.3.ppc.rpm gawk-3.1.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-cplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gdb-6.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libgcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-devel-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libtool-1.5.8-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm m4-1.4.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm make-3.80-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm OK, I’m not exactly rebuilding these old versions, I’m actually using their old specs to compile newer versions of these. I’m currently at coreutils-6.7, which really takes ages. But will see about the rest. ...
As I have quite some trouble every time I need grub via serial console, here’s just my personal reminder on how to do it right: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf serial --unit=0 --speed=38400 terminal --timeout=15 console serial title hardened-sources-2.6.20-r1 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-hardened-r1 root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 Additionally the agetty entry for ttyS0 in /etc/inittab needs to be uncommented and changed accordingly to the serial speed ...
OK, today we had somewhat of an emergency. The core-router for our entire network at work had some kind of hardware defect and repeatedly rebooted every three minutes caused the whole network to go cabooom. Usually (you would think), stuff in the same subnet (or VLAN) would still see each other (again, you would think) .. but apparently the VLAN/subnet database is stored on the core router and took all subnets with it. ...
OK, so today was the highlight of the week … We updated apache2 on Tuesday (yeah, that’s still 2.0.49, so if you have some exploits - try them 😛 ) and now out of the sudden we have major performance issues. We looked nearly the whole forenoon for a reason, why the frackin’ apache was using 236% of the CPU’s. In the afternoon, when my co-worker decided to go home (that was ~1500), I decided to revert back to the old patch level. But that isn’t as easy as you think (at least on SLES). The only thing I wanted to do, was something like this: ...
We are still waiting for the money promised by the state and the country for our HBFG (again, it’s “Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz”), that hopefully is reducing or eliminating our storage/SAN problem we have currently. Right now we have to Cisco MDS9216 (that’s a 16-port 2GBps SAN-switch, two for redundancy), which means we only have 16 SAN-ports. That isn’t much, but still is to less, as we have like 30 machines or so, that really need access to the SAN, so we either end up unplugging some of them from the SAN or merge them onto some big machines (like our x366). ...
OK, I’m sitting now again in train (hrm, I get the feeling I’ve done that already in the last few days - oh wait, I was doing that just on Monday) this time to Berlin. My boss ordered me to attend a workshop covering the implementation of Shibboleth (for those of you, who can’t associate anything with that term - it’s an implementation for single sign-on, also covering distributed authorization and authentication) somewhere in Berlin Spandau (Evangelisches Johannesstift Berlin). ...
OK, so I tried to install the AIX Toolkit today, to build some newer rpm’s (yaaaaah, I hate RPMS myself, still it’s way better than distributing plain tar.gz archives) but looks like either AIX or rpm-4.4.7 doesn’t like me. Now I’ve to figure out how to get libm (that’s /lib/libm.so) installed on AIX. Will see about that later and/or tomorrow.
OK, so I’ve spent the last day working on my bosses $MAILPROGRAM. In detail, I’ve been trying to get his mails from Eudora (which really is complete crap) to Outlook (yeah, yeah I KNOW but he really needs a decent calendar with his E-Mail program, which neither KMail, nor Thunderbird nor Mozilla Suite - aka SeaMonkey can provide). Problem with all that is Eudora’s crappy way of saving mails (and their attachments). Eudora is saving the mails in regular MBX format, but is putting the attachments into a separate folder. I’ve looked all over the web, and only found one application capable of importing his mails into Outlook including the attachments from the Attach folder. ...
As you may now (or not), I haven’t been pretty active in the last couple of days (OK, I admit it has been the last two weeks). Work is currently being a bitch (I have a 6,36 h day normally, but lately that evolved into a 8+ h day which I’m not even payed for), personal life is also a bit frustrating (yeah you know those people-people relations called friendship and stuff). ...