Monthly Archives: October 2012

Kfserver now behaves when rebooted.

Posted on October 31, 2012 by jaye

Was able to test changes made Monday, to kfserver01. After editing the startup script to run as the correct user, KF now ignores stale lock files left from abnormal shutdown.

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Post power outage instructions.

Posted on October 31, 2012 by jaye

Finished labeling systems and posted instructions on shelf. Still missing details on starting KF and NRPE.

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KnowledgeForum performance complaint…

Posted on October 31, 2012 by jaye

From customer Dylan: Like yesterday, Knowledge Forum is really slow this morning, so much so that I can’t really use it. Yesterday after school (around 3:00pm) it was back to normal, but this morning it is back to being slow. Checked MRTG … Continue reading →

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More problems with Word

Posted on October 31, 2012 by jaye

Received a request from Kelly, regarding Karen’s problem with Word 2011 You can tell him that the message I have been getting when I go to save at the end of editing (after auto save) is: file error, network connection … Continue reading →

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GMail as smartrelay on Ubuntu

Posted on October 30, 2012 by jaye

Setting up GMail as a relay in Postfix always seems to be an issue with me. Here’s a quick overview of the process: Install Postfix (if not already installed) Configure Postfix (if no main.cf exists). Use: sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix Generate … Continue reading →

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Nagios on Ubuntu

Posted on October 30, 2012 by jaye

Setting up Nagios for monitoring LiM access and other external services I discover the the Nagios3 package with Ubuntu sort of sucks. So much does not work, without screwing around. I finally bagged it and went with building the current … Continue reading →

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Ordered rechargeable batteries

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

At Christophe’s request, I ordered Panasonic batteries for the phones. He asked for 3 sets but they came in an 8 pack. Also ordered 8 rechargeable AA batteries for mice. Erica is going to take over managing them.

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More KnowledgeForum fun

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

KnowledgeForum on kfserver01 was installed and configured by Riley. He has the daemon running, at boot, as limadmin. However, this does not work, because all of the files are owned by lim. This is required to allow our support specialist … Continue reading →

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KnowledgeForum does not start DBs after power failure.

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

Because Lock files remain in place, simply turning on the system is not good enough. You must kill kforumd, delete the lock files, and then restart kforumd. Tested killall -HUP, after deleting locks, and that was not good enough.

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More Nagios tuning…

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jaye

Discovered that KF returns no error code if a DB is down. It returns a valid page saying that no database is available. This tricks Nagios into thinking all is good. Added a string check (-s) to each test to … Continue reading →

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