Wednesday, February 25, 2009

VMware (20090225)

Attempting to set up some automated tests against MC, using wget, which is having problems connecting to OF. Wget fails with a 'Read error (Cannot allocate memory) in headers', and simply retries. I've attempted this with a local tunnel, to bypass the SSL side of things
in case that was causing the problem, but with no success. I've ended up using lynx, which is a bit slower (not sure why) but does the trick.

A bit of investigation into backup MX servers, using Postfix, and using umask to force the permissions of newly created files. Testing umask and g+s changes on uk server, which didn't work very well. Seems there are documented issues with scp honoring the umask that is
set in .tcshrc or .bashrc. As it turned out, we can use find, with -not and -perm to find any offending files, and fix the permissions via a cronjob.

Fixing a sizing issue with images generated by Ballista. Added height and width parameters for each of the 4 images generated by retrieveNatal (just to break the API - insert maniacal laughter here.)

Set up OF on a new Ubuntu VM on holly, called biscuit which will run the old admin instance (once I get hold of the OFORs and config files.)

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