For many years now (since before I started working at the University) we’ve been using University of Washington’s IMAP and POP daemons. They worked well, and (through an old bit of unsupported code) also allowed our MH users to access their email. As time went on people wanted to do more than UW’s software could offer. Things like nested folders, …
Today we saw a strange problem on our Solaris hosts that NFS mount VxFS filestore from our Veritas cluster. The users were seeing “Disc quota exceeded” messages, whilst the quota command wasn’t showing they’d hit their limit. After some digging on the cluster node we found the following error message: Sep 12 11:04:33 bes vxfs: [ID 702911 kern.warning] WARNING: msgcnt …
Since launching CSProjects last year we’ve had nearly 80 projects set up on it. I’m pleased with the success it’s had so far, but I’m still surprised by people not knowning about it. Recently I’ve been trying to do more to publicise it, with some success. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spent some time sorting out the upgrade …
I’ve made a couple of posts lately about the problems we’ve been having with one of our Sun 3511 disk arrays. Sun got back to me today with what they thought the problem was. Here’s the gory detail (slightly truncated to fit this blog post): * SES Ch Id Chassis Vendor/Product ID       Rev PLD ————————————————-  2 28 092131 SUN StorEdge …
After all the fun the other day I was hoping for some time to work on other stuff this week. By the end of the weekend the array had finishing syncing and I’d remirrored all the volumes back on to it. It was all ticking over nicely, until this morning… Unrecoverable Controller Error Encountered ! Resetting Controller ! After which …
“Any idea WTF is going on?” is what I read on my phone as I stumbled out of bed this morning. It was from one of my colleagues who, for some reason I can’t understand, seems to like getting in to work at a ridiculous hour in the morning. Still half asleep I plodded through to my desk and sat …
I’ve done a bit of work on my FreeBSD ports lately. Firstly, after building my new server, I got round to upgrading from SlimServer to SqueezeCenter. This also meant sorting out ports for all the plugins I use. This didn’t take too long, and you can find them all over here. So far I’m liking SqueezeCenter, and I’d highly recommend …
A few weeks back I started having problems with my file server at home. This machine is fairly important to us; it holds all our photos, music and other files. For years I’ve been bodging it together with various old parts scavenged from other machines and some new parts when needed. But, once again, it’d started to break. Disks were …
Since we spend quite a bit of time in Falmouth I thought I’d just quickly list some of the places we like to eat. This was originally just going to be a post about our favourite place, but I figured I’d list a few others as well. Our number one place to go is Five Degrees West at the Arwenack …
It took me a while to figure this code out, and there seemed to be a lack of complete examples on the web to do exactly this, so I thought I’d document it. I needed to connect to an LDAP server using a Kerberos principal for authentication from within a Perl script. This meant that it needed to do it …