Back to just me and the dog again my son's girlfriend is back off holliday so we did'nt see him for dust and my other half i sat work bless.So it's me the dog and the internet it's so much better with a new computer goes so much faster.i still have cold and my op is on wednesday so i am trying every thing to clear it up you know hot drinks paracetemol menthol you name it i'v tryed it it seems to be working so you never know i might just be fit enough to still have the op .i hope so as my arm cause me so much pain dont think i've had a full nights sleep in 3 years so fingers crossed i might sleep tight when it done .
Call from Cartman:
Problems with NTP in nonprod, he's locking firewalls and sees some strange calls.�
Investigation / background
- All of nonprod syncs ntp with a vip named 'ntp' in DMZ and 'time' in CORE
- CORE/time vip points to NW for time
- DMZ/ntp vip points to non-prod server skylla on mage
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With the dmx migration Slick and I shut down NTP on all vms and instructed them to sync time with their ESX host.� All ESX hosts were pointed to 'ntp' for their time, under the mistaken assumption that the 'ntp' vip also pointed to NW for time.
We also shut down ntp on skylla.� This effectively left all of nonprod without a timesource.� It will drift.
I asked Cartman this:
"If it's a known issue that Virtual Guests don't sync time properly using the NTP protocol, did it ever make sense to use a Virtual Guest as a primary time source?"
He agreed that it does not.
Cartman volunteered to assign NTP duties to our nonprod Cisco switch and to point the ntp VIP to it.
That means all of our Virtual Guests will sync time with their ESX host and the ESX host will sync time with the 'ntp' VIP, which will use the nonprod Cisco switch as its time authority.
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Cartman will get this set up "sometime next week" because he's "busy".
Meanwhile, time on these machines will drift.� I ran through today and punched it down for all of the nonprod boxes and found them all .5 sec off.� Apollo was 15sec off.�
At last we have a new computer and just in time the old one did go bang it nearly gave my son a heart attack poor kid glad it was't me that pressed the on swithch cos i would have had an heart attack lol.only a few days till my op and guess what i'm full of cold so they might have to cancell it if it doesn't clear up in time that would be just my luck wait five years to get the treatment then end up with a cold thats sods law for you but if thats what happens then i guess a few more months wont kill me never mind worse things happen
Friday Slick & I cut over the DMX from 2 to 3 on nonprod portal.� We had an issue with Mage kernel panicking on reboot so after much troubleshooting and consideration we decided to do an in-place upgrade from ESX 2.5 to 3.02 and migrate it over to Madison and off of Fairbanks.
This worked pretty well.� We had a couple of outstanding things to do:
- Full Patch load
- New Kernel Load
- Set clock=pit in kernel and shutdown ntpd
migrate DMX
- ntpdate (lockdown time)
- recompile vmware tools & restart networking
- remove gcc & kernel-source
- remount nfs & smb shares
- visudo (add satellite acct)
- chgrp & chmod /bin/su
- ntpdate one more time
So tonight I have the House all to myself, Jorge is going out with the fellas. I have no idea what to do I really wish I had My textbooks for school so i can get some major homework done. My Professor gave us like a ton of home work. It consists of alot of reading but i could totally handle that. I like to read and write so this class should be a breeze. I really hope I do good this semester, Grades should be a sinch since i really have a laid back job. I should be able to get homework done throughout the day. I think imma order me a movie tonight and pick out an nice outfit to wear to my first day of elementary algebra. Ha ha ha I know, i know, My math level is not really up to par but hey at least im in school right? being in school gives me this sense of security as if Im taking care of business. Last night when i was released from my english class, I felt Good. Like if i did a good deed such as Lend a friend some money. It felt similar to that feeling. I am very thankful that I am back in school and I really hope that this semester goes by smooth and quick, as one of my instructor's at Western career college would say! Those were the good days but anyway, I might be back tonight to express my feelings and what my night really turned out to be, but im pretty sure its gonna be calm and fun. I hope to eat popcorn and maybe watch a chick flick. LOL so cliche! but hey, if the shoe fits right? Anywhoozers i will let you know how my night is going later on! tootles!
"The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol." (from "The Misanthrope's Corner", May 2001)
cf. "The One Who Is Not Busy"
- I need to change the password for the satellite account everywhere.
o we can use that account to spray files through the env
- set up at jobs to update systems at 4am, prior to esx/dmx cutover
o change root in prod
Lor,
Are you also going to ask me if I'm mad at you?
Have you had enough time to think?
If you ask me can you hear what I might say?
It won't be that bad, you can trust me. I've had time to think, and my emotions have settled. I can see past them, they aren't going to rule my words.
I wish we could have a true dialog about your absence that day. I believe there is a deeper reason than the one you gave us. I believe that this is an opportunity for you to grow and learn if you want to. You have to ask us though, we can't insist.
Bear has accepted your apology and if that's where it stops then so be it - he speaks for me too. We'll all have to go forward from here and I won't be the one to�bring it up.
For us to force�a dialog with you guys could bring out a truth that could be too much for all of�us to handle.�
It's possible that a huge stinkie elephant has just entered the room and we'll just have to ignor it.�
We just never know what difference a day can make.
Sometimes I feel excited with the possibilities when I have a day that seems open but today I feel a bit apprehensive.
Evelyn usually is on my list for Thursdays. But things between her and I have changed in the last couple weeks. Back when she took that fall at Macys and had me over to help�the next day which ended up�taking up most of my day, she told me that she'd feel better about "using" so much of my time if she were paying me.�She's tried, in the past, to�offer me money for comeing to see her but I've refused�because of the nature of our relationship. However, in recent months she seems so much more incapable and is requiring more assistance than ever, she says she wants me to be the one she calls when she needs someone. In that conversation when she told me that she wanted me to start accepting money for my time with her I had to agree but haven't felt good about it since. I think mostly that I don't want her to abuse me the way it sounds like she abuses other people that "help" her for money. She's always got a tale of the incompitence of this one or that one that came to her house and how she tells them off. Yikes, I really don't want to be one of those, I think that would bring a sudden end to our friendship and I know I'd feel bad about that.
So, this morning I'm wondering if she's going to call, and how it'll turn out.
She's such a tough old bird and I'm such a softie.
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