Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Beginnings of Fertility (20090226)

Lots on new Ubuntu VMs. Working the new biscuit OF VM, trying to get the user-context switch working so the instance can start up as root and then switch to ofop, after opening the listener on the right port (443)

Worked up a script to stick into /etc/init.d to start the instance. Basically took the init.d script for ntp, and fiddled with it from there.

Found out the easiest way to get the service started at the correct run-level (on Ubuntu it's update-rc.d)

Started working through a check of all the fertility checks to make sure all are valid (it's been quite a while since I last looked at this code.) There was quite a bit of confusion initially as to what we are actually checking, and I need to make sure that we ended up implementing the correct ones. Once we're happy that we are doing the right thing (as far as all the conditions are concerned) we can implement an interface for VB6 to use.

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