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Friday, January 07, 2005 |
I got another geeky thing to do today. DaB had a slight problem
with this blog today, and he asked me for some assistance. See,
being a geek is kind of nice from time to time. Somtimes, we get
to work on a particularly interesting problem. We did not resolve
the problem, but it looks like the problem was server-side.
I like doing stuff like this from time to time. Just don't ask me
where the "ANY" key is or why the cupholder no longer retracts into the
front of your PC.
1:39:52 PM  
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It is a slow day at work today. I did a bunch of stuff early in
the morning, so now I am futzing around with a couple of different
things today. Here is what I have done so far:
- Updated one of our NetWare 6.5 SP2 servers to address a problem
with Macintosh and Native File Access for those clients. My
initial answer was to use an operating system that has a native client
for it, but Mac users don't like that. (To any Mac users out
there reading this, don't crucify me. I do not want to instigate
the age-old Mac vs. PC debate).
I don't know if this will fix it, but I have something else in my bag of tricks to try if the same problem occurs.
- If any of you sysadmin types run Tivoli Storage Manager as your
backup system, please tell me you do reporting better than we do.
Currently, we are running Perl scripts on the hosts that run it to mail
off the tail of the log file that is updated on the client when the
backup completes. Today, I spent most of the time commenting out
the long-running cron job to mail this off to us. Apparently, TSM
has an option that one can place in the client option dile (DSM.OPT) to
run any command upon completion of the scheduled job. It worked
when I tested it, so I implemented it on our NetWare servers that run
it. For our Windows servers, it will take a bit longer to
do. It apears to work for them as well.
The folks responsible for this need to come up with something that is
much nicer than making sure every machine needs some scripting language
to mail off the end of a log file.
- I need to fix something with KDE 3.3 on my SuSE 9.1 laptop. Apparently, the new version of aKregator refuses to work with it, whatever I did. Time to investigate the Linux equivalent of "DLL Hell" in the Windows world.
4:00 PM arrives in just under 2 1/2 hours. Then, the weekend begins.
1:32:58 PM  
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