Friday, October 17, 2008

Software Upgrade

Last night was the "Mans Night" at the Pub. I have not missed Mans Night in MONTHS. However, I was at work last night working on a "Software Upgrade". Working at a Government facility which requires 15 character passwords and changing from one network to another is cumbersome to say the least. So back to the upgrade. It takes 15 min to download, I have to burn a CD, transfer it to the server and then walk back to the office to begin the install process.

I begin the upgrade. It is on Tomcat. It is not working. They suggest D/L the file again. I say "NO". I checked the permissions on the D/L file that Tomcat was supposed to be working with. It is set to ROOT only. Duh. How can the Tomcat Service get to the file.
I change the permissions and restart Tomcat and Pow.. it works.

I am cutting out much cussing and other things that took place. I left @ 12:10 in the morning.

Needless to say, I will make sure I check the permissions from now on.

That is my tip for the day.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Back at the Salt Mine..

Well, I was out of circulation for a while.. and we won't go into that now. I have been back @ work for 2 weeks now. I am working for a small computer company (HP..joke get it.. they are not small) as a consultant on a Government Project. That is all I can say about that.

However, I have been working with OpsWare, VMware and Linux (2 of the 3 are new to me) and figured I would put down some thoughts as I come across them.

YUM - yum is another package manager in the Linux world. I am not sure when it came into existance or where from but it is cool! I am working on a project where we wanted to install all packages with the exception of BIND and SENDMAIL. Ok.. I try to remove the BIND with rpm..nothing doing. There are all kinds of other packages that rely on it. However you can go "yum -y remove sendmail" and BAM, it removes all the associated packages.

In the words of Ricky Bobby "That Just Happened!"

I am able to move on for the day.