超级耐心测验
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�� Nuri 诚心挽留我们在香港多住一天, 天留我, 店不留我, 酒店的大堂经理拉长了脸告诉我，22号，没房间，不可能延住。 8号风球，拉着孩子满大街找酒店显然不太合适, 头裂开之际, 老友夫妻俩赶在狂风暴雨来临之前, 开着车前来解救这落难的娘俩. 真是老天有眼, 当夜我和敦敦不用在湾仔的大桥地下体会三毛的流浪生活了。
第二天中午，风停雨住, 我们告别朋友一家人，直奔机场standby, 希望能有运气登机. Check-in 之后， 跟男女老少，中西宾客一样席地而坐。 过了两三个小时，航班却在显示登机口的银屏上消失了，很多赶着回上海看奥运会闭幕式的人到港龙服务台想要个说法，没想到香港小姐来了一句烈士常用语‘不知道’，这很不负责的真话使一位情绪不稳的大陆大叔也顾不得怜香惜玉了，手举登记牌，用坦白从宽，抗拒从严的威力高声斥责着香港小姐，知道吗？你不能说“不知道”。港龙小姐们若会用专业地京腔说“我们正在了解情况，会第一时间通知您最新消息”。 就用不着忍受大叔这通唾沫四溅的愤言。我发现楼上有两名端着相机的记者心情超爽，对着积聚了相当烦恼能量的人群兴奋地连按快门。过了好一阵，绿色银屏上终于出现了KA808延误，没台风经验的乘客们终于明白，航班未被取消，苦海无边，等待是唯一的出路。
晚上9点登机，凌晨1点到沪，临上机前，敦敦在‘吃辣椒’国际机场发给他老爹一份电子邮件，声称当日是他人生遭遇的第四黑暗的日子。我们经历了机场5小时，机内一小时的超级耐心训练。经验告诉我们，在某些时候，等待是唯一的，也是最好的出路。
- Rammstein wants to know if anyone took leela down last night between 23:00 and 02:00.� I did not, and I let him know that.
- He is working with Chops and Premie on fixing the WICK apps.� I'm copied on the emails but am not getting involved unless I see them doing something excessively weird.
9:11 - Discussed the issues on Clover & basil with Slick.� Sent Staph-o an email asking him to check them out with Monitor.
- Yesterday Prince Chili Longhorn and I had a difference of opinion about the PFF QA/Dev envs.� He wants to leave them in Lab Mangler and I was under the impression that the servers would be spun out to carson & wabasha and renamed.� They'd be set up to assume the identity of the current presentation layer.� He says that's not the case.
- Apparently he wants to leave the QA - WAS migration machines in LM and proceed to install Prod using WAS instead of Tomcat.� He says Mr. T. is onboard with that.�
- I think its a bad idea because the Prod environment would be built with a completely different design and layout from Dev and SWT.� I don't think this fits into our ESDM model.
Here we go, it's Wednesday and it's going to be HOT.
Mark, the pc guy is coming today. Hope the new(used)pc turns out to be a good buy cause we're stuck with it now. Why do I let the kids talk me into things?
Since school started last week I'm trying to adjust to my new daytime schedule, haven't found my niche (I wish this journal had a sp.check, had to lookup that one!)�just yet but I will. I have to be careful not to start thinking that I need to fill the�empty time�gaps, they will fill in naturally, they always do. I have to ignor the voice that says, "You should be doing more, you should - this, you should - that". I'd like�to have a project though - we'll see.
10:15 - I wanted to start working on the RHEL5 gold image today.� VIC in New York didn't give me a 5 option until I moved over to Mage.� Mage has 3.02 on it, Seer only 3.01.� 5 Wasn't an option on 3.01.
- Kipper needs me to look @ gargoyle.
� - A few weeks ago Kipper called saying that he couldn't get processes restarted after a change window on cyclops & gargoyle.� It can't spawn enough processes he says.
2008-08-26-09:46:05.742-07:00I----- 0x38AD51C2 webseald ERROR wiv pthread WsWorker.cpp 495 0xb5c06080 DPWIV0450E Could not create new thread (11) 2008-08-26-09:46:05.814-07:00I----- 0x38AD50A4 webseald WARNING wiv general IVServer.cpp 978 0xb5c06080 DPWIV0164W Could not start background process
Explanation: WebSEAL failed to create an additional thread. This may be due to running out of operating system resources or exceeding process limits. Action: Check memory and thread limits for the process, and available memory. The error number can be looked up in /usr/include/sys/errno.h for more details on the problem.
- I raised the nproc limit in /etc/security/limits.conf a few weeks ago, set the hard limit up from 1000 to 3000.� Today I set the soft limit up from 400 to 1000.� No difference.� PMR is open with IBM.
0 - Got the OK to boot clover and basil last night.� It turned into a complete clusterfuck that was my fault entirely.
� - A few weeks back, Slick deployed these VMs and did the identity change and tool install etc.� He's not a UNIX person, but he knows his way around well enough.� After he finished, he asked me to double-check what he'd done and I completely blew him off because I was working on other things.
- The servers rebooted, but came up complaining about VMWare Tools not matching the running kernel.� I think Slick compiled VMWare tools before shutting down, not after restarting.� So when he did the compile, he was still on the old kernel.
- I booted them both back to their old kernel and got networking up, then loaded in a compiler and tried to find the kernel headers or source code on RHN.� It wasn't available and I have no idea why.� Perhaps the kernel was retracted, I don't know.� At any rate, I finally got the source code from kernel.org and got it through our firewalls and into a system where I could move it around.
- Right in the middle of this, a storm blew through the desert and knocked down my business Internet connection but spared my home connect even though they're both in the same house.� grrrr.
- Booted the systems to the new kernel, compiled the tools, unloaded the source & compilers and turned them back over to Becky to get OV up and running.
Ended up taking 1.5 hours instead of 20 minutes.
tada!
Things are improving with regard to D. I couldn't have predicted it though. I was really feeling doomed. But I put it out there (here and also to a trusted friend) and got some feedback that has us moving in what seems to be a better direction. How can I tell? Mostly because I'm not feeling that wierd, hallow emptiness in my gut. I've had it enough by now that I should trust it.
We have turned things around with him in the last week. We listened to advice and acted on it. Made some changes ie; his bills are now back on him, we'll support him by helping with gas money and paying for the school, period.�He responded amazingly well (hopefully he wasn't just�blowin smoke up my dress), he seems happier now. With regard to the new school: he's made progress! The ball is rolling!! He had a choice to attend during day hrs. or evening hrs., he chose evening so he wouldn't miss work - !! Wow! Good choice!! He got the first binder that needed to be worked on by himself & a�trainer from work then brought back next Monday night- his first night of class, so I'm happier now.
I'm seeing here the true value of journaling: a concrete way to know that things are changing,�I�am changing! I need this because I get hung up in thinking negative thoughts when I hit a wall with something. I have a hard time believing that anything will get better. It's so hard to tell myself a good story about how "everything's going to be alright". BUT when I do this, and look back, then I can actually remember and see the issues evolve.
Gives me hope.
looks like i have got rid of my cold just in time for my op tommorow so lets hope they find no other reason to cancell it . been on the internet most of the day just messing round trying to keep my mind off it well it not the first op i've had this will be op number 10 and lets hope it will be the last for a good few years .but knowing me i wil need something else done before long .i swear they have a big lable on my hospital records that says cut off what ever you can when ever you can .still there are other people worse of than i am and some of them are only babies and young kids so i'm gratfull for the crap health that i have .
I've been asked to join my neighbor for a walk this morning. I said I would. I like to spend time with her, she's a good neighbor, friend and recently became my boss.
We have a very good relationship. I've always admired her and think all good thoughts about her. She seems to have mutual thoughts for me. I'm glad to have the opportunity to work with her, that has offered our relationship a new avenue to grow in.
Most recently she's had an awakening. She realized it's time to give her health more priority. She's eating better and exercising regularly, I can see�the weight coming off!�It's wonderful to see, she's got focus and determination.
I will challenge her this morning to push the envelope, we will sweat!
Becky is out sick today
Cartman is working from home.
First order of business today was to setup the satellite acct with sudo access throughout nonprod.
- Talked with Slick about the time issue and let him know apollo was 15sec off.
- WICK - Note from Ramstein that nfs mounts to fry were down.� Pulled up the wick docs (because apparently the ops team can't handle this simple task) and found out that it gets nfs mounts from eros, dionysus, poseidon, and atlas.�
- Stapho says basil & clover aren't allowing monitor to do anything.� no remote commands.� Logged into each machine and su to monitor.� Everything seems normal.
- Check logs and note that BOTH servers are logging as thyme (their clone master)
� Did Slick or I reboot these after changing their ID?� Neither of us remember.� Need to reboot them now to make sure.� They've been up 19 days (aug 5).
� Can't bounce, they're PROD already.� Jumpin' jesus on a pogo-stick.
- So I fixed the problem with WICK and sent a note about it.� Of course Pissy Wick Boy had to ask a bunch of pissy technical questions that he won't understand the answer to anyway, but he likes asking them.� Maybe he thinks it makes him seem smarter or something.
- Tequila doesn't have an admin ID to get into virtual center in madison or new york.� fecking feck.� I can't show him how to upgrade the kernels then.� I'm starting to have my doubts about that boy.
- We have to come up with a solution for LDAP and NFS /home shares SOONish.
- Sent Arnold the Pig some info from crow & petrel
- Skipper needs me to give Triscuit some sort of "evidence" that I shut off root access.� Requested clarification.� WTF kind of "evidence" do they want?
- Cheesedog's change got nixed for tonight so I'm not bouncing clover or basil.
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