Gary - 11/1 to 11/6

I worked on remedy calls.

I worked on the file server outage on Sunday night.
I helped with the restore from tape on engr00mb on Monday.
I did troubleshooting on the file server to try to determine what went wrong.

I helped with a Realm CRON job that showed that only engr01jab.eos.ncsu.edu
is affected by the missing disk problem in VMware ESX.

I spent time trying to get the O.N. for Solaris patches. I did not have
luck but Richard was able to get them over the phone for me.

I tried to patch Solaris 10 with the newest security patches. But
so far I have had little luck. My security patchlist only install
produces a system that will not boot. I will try downloading more
patches next week to see if the recommended patches fix this no boot
problem. We are still waiting to hear back from OIT if they suggest
any specific patches. It seems we are the only ones on campus using
Solaris 10 for file servers. Evidently OIT is still using Solaris 8
for all AFS servers. So it may take a bit for them to figure out what
we may need to add. But for now I am using sunsolve to try to get the
machines pactched up to the current release of Solaris in case that helps.
(It also will make the machines more secure)

I upgraded kernels on all Linux lab / vcl / desktop type systems.

I upgraded kernels on all Linux ESX boxes I am responsible for. I also
removed the clock=pmtmr argument from the grub.conf file on all ESX
servers I upgraded.

I went to a CLS services meeting. I am supposed to work with Jack Neely
to make some VMware features we use be a part of Realm Linux globally in
the near future.

I created a "findutils" rpm for Solaris 10. This was to add the "locate"
command on Solaris 10.

I finished all the new proe packages for Solaris 10.

I tried to contact Steven Stewart in OIT about them taking over our
backups. He still hasn't replied to either of the emails I sent him.

I nagged OIT about the printing issues again this week and they FINALLY
pushed out the update...