So, I have been up all night.� Again.� I really should be going to bed more.� I live with the most wonderful man, that I love more than I know how to say.� Yet, most nights he goes to bed alone, and I stay up.
I could go to bed now, but I know I'll just disturb his sleep.� So I postpone. I'll wait until it's nearly time for his alarm, then I'll go and cuddle him - and then I'll finally fall asleep.
In a way, it's better this way.� I know he sleeps better when I'm not tossing and turning and fidgeting next to him.� And I sleep when I would otherwise be on my own here.� And then we get the evening together.� So, it's not all bad.� It's probably for the best.
Except, that isn't the reason I don't go to bed with him.� I stay up because I'm terrified of going to bed, and trying to sleep in the dark, and having nightmare after nightmare, and lying awake in the dark full of anxiety I can't dispell.
So tired.� So very damn tired.
If only being tired was enough to enable me to sleep.
Ugh! I am madly in love with a boy who has a girlfriend. He is soooooo cute! I think he knows I like him. Anyway I am on summer vacation! WAHOO! I an totally out of the USA! I really want to make good friends on here so I accept all friend requests!
LOL and madly in love
ALeks 4eva
Today is someone's birthday and I can't remember who it is.� Happy Birthday whomever you are.
- More problems with LDAP in portal dev, but they should be fixed at this point.� The problem only appears on RHEL3/u9 boxes that use Winbind for SAMBA mounts _and_ authentication for users against LDAP/AD.� Turned out to be userID numbers.� Hoops wrote it up and dropped it onto the wally share.
- Back and forth on the date format issue again.� Explained to everyone my understanding of the LC_TIME flag in locale.
locale -c LC_TIME shows how the LC_TIME settings were compiled using localedef for the specific locale. (In my case en_US)�
If you set a variable LC_TIME in /etc/profile, you set it to something like LC_TIME='dutch' or LC_TIME='en_US', or LC_TIME='en_UK',
then whatever program is calling the LC_TIME variable to find out how to format something, it goes out to /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME and reads the formatting orders.� But that affects the entire system.
12:00 - Talked with a couple of friends and organized a jailbreak for Saturday.� We're going to go north of Flagstaff and hike a few miles around some extinct volcanos.
- Mon-Chi-Chi still has 'turnstone' on a list someplace even though it was decomm months ago.� Informed him as such.
- back and forth with Pooh over Delphi phys and Oracle.� Looks like my simplest solution is to rebuild the machine and then P-to-V it.
000 - Maintenance window tonight
-- Some MOTHERFUCKER shut down VDI while I was in the middle of working on giant,titan,pine.� Editing sd.conf and lpfc.conf to set up the new dmx3.� I almost fucking came _unglued_.� Called and talked with DC, he says there was a change ticket open and that's the proper notification.� Fine.� My solution?� I'M NOT FUCKING USING VDI ANYMORE.� If they can't send a shutdown warning prior to ripping the systems down, I'm done with it.
-- The same assclowns who took down VDI took down Dilbert too.� you BASTARDS.
-- Issues with the disk grow on the cluster.� More to the point, issues with the cluster.� All notes marked private.� After portal came back up, Pooh tells me the DB isn't open and I have to recycle it.� So I hagrp -offline the group and then bring it online again, everything worked fine.� Didn't even interrupt WAS, but probably because nobody was using it at the time.� Biker Babe was happy.
- DMX cutover was a fucking nightmare.� Mac and Margie worked on it while Chops kept interrupting and making everyone nuts.� I just tried to listen and learn.�
- Talked with Cartman and finally got him to admit that Grandpa Simpson is fucking incompetent.
- Talked with Slick ~midnight.� He'd gotten a few calls from The Thug.� Incredible.
July 10, 2008
I had a great time back in WI for the 4th of July weekend.� Thank you everyone who came to dinner at Jud’s on Wednesday, it was great to see everyone.� We had a super weekend up north at Braun’s Haven.� The weather was great and I think a good time was had� by all.� My trip to and from Charlotte was pretty uneventful.� Trying to leave the airport in Charlotte however was a different story.� I knew when I left for WI that I was potentially going to have some problems as I totally forgot to check what parking lot I parked in at the airport.� When I got on the shuttle bus to the parking lot the gentleman driving asked what lot I was in.� I literally did not know what to tell him.� I could tell by the look his face that he did not think this was a good situation.� He started to ask me some questions to try and narrow down the area of the lot I might have parked in.� He dropped me off in the area I “thought” I might be in.� He said he was going to drop of the other lady on the shuttle and he would be back to help me.� With suitcase in tow I started to walk the isle hitting the unlock button.� By the grace of God I found my car after only 3 isles.� I was incredible grateful for that.� It could have turned out to be a very long night.� When I was leaving the lot I asked if the parking attendant could radio the shuttle driver and tell him that the gray Chevy trailer blazer with Wisconsin plates had found her!!
10:10 - First chance to update this morning.
-- Mandrake server has issues.� Have to reset the VM because I can't get logged in.� After it's back up, Biker Babe says the app won't start:
could not connect to demeter on port 27135 couldn't bind port 20080, 20081
found /var 100% on demeter.
-- Team meeting - discussing the DMX disaster
-- the E drive on ntqua02 is full, talked to Thug about it and he's trying to get the right people on it.� (it's a windows box, and I don't do windows)
-- IWS perf test for today - delayed - they want me to check out and chart Thyme LM 215 but I haven't got time.� Too many fires so I bailed on this today.
- Staph Meating healthcare stuff pissed me off.� Made some phone calls but nobody gives a damn.� feck it.
- Sitescope is yelling about mountpoints for WICK systems.� PM to Tequila to check it out.� Tell him to df -h then mount -a and it'll probably fix it.� He said it didn't change when he did it, so it was already mounted.� Dunno.� Told him that a good PR move would be to call CarrotCake and ask if the servers are working properly because we're seeing an error in monitoring.� She'll love that kind of attention.� He took my advice.�
(always heed suck-up advice boys and girls, customers both internal and external like to know that their highly paid engineers are paying attention to their needs.� It's good for the career.) ((and I can bet Tequila didn't open the conversation with "Coraline said there might be an issue with your servers..."� But I don't mind.))
3:30 - Went through DEV and straightend out the final LDAP issues.� Changed the DN's and put the sudoers file into place.� With the root password changed, users are accessing the systems via admin accounts.�
Got the OK to do SWT on Friday.� Hoppy is out in a training class but he'll VPN in tomorrow and stage the ED systems.� After 5pm on Friday (Dark Weekend anyway), I'm bouncing the SWT env and verifying connectivity.
- Working on setting up marriott and hilton
- Pooh Bear couldn't get into phys Delphi but I got the IP from Mr. T. and gave him a new password.� He can't find apps, but I think it's at hda13 which wasn't mounted.� The /u partitions are most likely mounted wrong, so I need him to look at what we have and just tell me which goes where so I can fix it for him.
- Mandrake has been fucko all day and reset multiple times.� I finally got some time to look at it and found webseal had run away and was bleeding the system to death.�
ps -ef|grep webseald|awk '{print $2}' |xargs kill -9
-- By the way, Becky is back to work.� She's doing w@h for this week but will have a presence in the office next.� Mr. T. never did give me her address so I'll have to make a trip in next week to give it to her personally.� Also want to get something for Chez, who got back from Vacation today.� (I'll probably give her a new laser pointer so she can play with Smalls.)
3:50 - Mr. T. took the DMX migration off of Slick's plate and mine.� PD2 and ESX Remediation are top priorities.� Margie is on her own, and if it breaks in half THEN it's ALL HANDS ON DECK.� I probably owe some thanks to Skipper.
-- This is a recap note for yesterday and is post-dated
--� Morning started slow with a BTI meeting, but my afternoon schedule was quadruple booked.� I had :
- my '1-1 meeting' ; EMC Lunch; EMC Presentation ; PAM/LDAP Meeting ; Communications ; DMX Migration Test ; Blackbird ; and IWS R3 Perftest
all scheduled from 1pm - 5pm.� I knew there wasn't any way I was going to do all that from home so I packed up and left for the office at about 10:30 and arrived onsite at 11:35.�
-- Highlight notes:
- Communications issue with Fick.� He keeps getting prompted for authentication on Pan and Athena.� After looking at the problem I decided to do two things:
- Abandon the Redmond Washington authentication system completely.� It's old, it's outdated, and it's needed to be decommissioned for a while now.� From now on we're going to use Athens Georgia or Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, with a preference for Georgia.
- Re-arrange the nsswitch search order for authentication to: winbind ldap files
� After the changes were made and the perfunctory 10 minute propagation period, all was well.� Sent this info to Dustin in ST.
-- IWS Perf test showed Thyme LM 215 tank again.� I don't know what they expect, it's lab mangler and they're beating the piss out of it.� Wonky code made it start swapping even with 3gb of ram and I have to do charts and diagrams today if I can find time.
-- ROOT PASSWORD in Dev has been changed.�
-- DMX Migration test was a fucking nightmare.� Slick and I stayed until 7PM straightening it out.
� -� Hook up SAN to okoboji and change the HBA firmware, but on boot we get unable to load an aicXXXX driver and a kernel panic.� Slick has screenshots from Raritan.� We're going to talk with Thug, KennyB, and Otter to get clarification on the HBA documentation we have.� Then we're going to try the cut over again (the copy may have gotten fucko), and if all else fails, we're calling for Vendor support.
-- Kibbles N' Bits needs an admin ID.
-- Squirrelface doesn't know how to change user pw's on apollo.�
-- Grandpa Simpson totally fucked his workstation VM install by copying RHEL3 binaries to a RHEL5 system.� He's going to have to rebuild.
-- There is an issue with mail on Killian & Guiness in LM
To be continued.
ahhhh i just want someone who wants me of me....
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