Gary - 10/11 to 10/23

I worked on remedy calls.
I changed the backup tapes.
I went to the Engineering sysadmin meeting.

I pushed out a new openoffice.org to the labs. The default version users
see is now dependent on which openoffice-local rpm is installed rather
than which version in AFS is the default. The app does better apploging on
Linux now. Most of the time it will show oocalc or oowriter instead of
the generic ooffice as the app that was launched by the user.

I created a new rpm called openoffice-local-bin which does a lot of the
work. Both rpm packages will work on a stock RHEL 5 or CentOS 5 box. Thus,
I have made the repository world readable. I also created documentation
on this on the techies wiki here.

The packages I built for openoffice.org 3.1.1 are much better than earlier
versions of the rpms I had created. They do all the work in the %build
section rather than the %post section.

The better openoffice-local package now will install on Solaris 10
at install time rather then needing to be added post install. I'm pretty
sure this is because the packages are more properly built now.

I started working on better versions of the rpms for proe wildfire so
that they will also be able to install at install time on Solaris 10.
The rpms are working but they have exposed some other bugs in Solaris 10.
So this isn't ready to share with the Solaris 10 list yet. I will need
to spend more time on this problem next week.

I finished all the ESX VMXNET 2 RHEL 5 Realm Linux boot ISOs and I moved
them onto each ESX box. I created a method to build the VMware tools
modules post install since we don't have AFS on first boot.

I still need to do a bit more testing but this is basically finished now.

I updated this article which describes different issues that can come up
running Realm Linux within VMware. The article had become out of date.

I modified the include "ESX-vmconfig" within RHEL 5 so that it no longer
adds "clock=pmtmr" to grub.conf since its no longer required. I also
changed this file for RHEL 4 to add the "divider=10" parameter in
case we ever do any more RHEL 4 installs.

I created a spreadsheet with everything I think OIT needs to begin taking
over our backups. I am waiting to hear back from Steven Stuart in OIT to
see what the next steps we need to take are.