In an effort to remember things that I’ve forgotten, here’s a little ditty to mount/umount a drive on Solaris. The drive in this case happens to be a SAN.
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo -n “Shall we play a game.. enter m or um:”
act1=”m”
act2=”um”
read myax
echo
echo -n “You selected $myax”
echo
if [ "$myax" = "$act1" ]; then
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c7t60060160F396110072EA3A6E4BFCD811d0s6 /dassan
echo “Mounted…”
echo
echo “Running df because I am cool like that”
echo “—————————————-”
df
echo “—————————————-”
elif [ "$myax" = "$act2" ]; then
umount /dassan
echo “Running df just to check …”
echo
df
echo
else
echo “No Soup for you”
fi
It’s been a pretty crazy week with this, that, and the other.
There was an issue with the email system and it ending up being a late Thursday nite and early Friday morning.
After 859 days the Solaris box housing the mail store needed rebooted. The irony is the Solaris box was not the issue.
The storage area network proved to be the culprit. Things are back to stable however, there was a lot of blood sweat and tears.
The moral of the story, never overlook the obvious.
Friday, I spent the day in a Safari Montage Training session. There is a lot of potential with the application. I hope we can get the directory services worked out before the start of the school year so that teachers can utilize the resource.
We need to design a method to either sync or “federate” the District’s local directory servers. The Safari Montage project designs made the assumption that each IU brokers directory services out to their respective districts. This is true for several IU however, we allow each district to maintain their own authentication systems.
The two thoughts on the table are to either: (1) use CAS (JA-SIG – http://www.jasig.org/cas/) or (2) Fedora Directory Server to push from each AD to a central LDAP server (http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:WindowsSync).
I’m a blogging fool. I added a plugin to WordPress to roundtrip from Twitter to WP. As fate would have it, it also has a WP to Twitter function.. The simple pleasures in life. Good stuff.
Hoping this works… WordPress to Twitter
It looks like I’m not going to have time to piece my ISTE notes together. The unfortunate effect of going to conferences is the deluge of to-dos/catch-up that you end up doing upon your return. I was without Internet in the evenings which is when I composed most of the day. I may post the raw notes on an ISTE 2010 but I don’t see the narrative that I hoped for coming to fruition. Que cera cera.
There hasn’t been enough hours in the day to reflect on the Denver trip. Will try to get things put together this weekend.
After two morning delays, we are up and away into the wild blue yonder. Project smuggle the DSLR camera is a success so far and the flight has been uneventful.
The whole notion of having an arsenal of music and movies to pass the time (and of course educational games) at my finger tips is nothing less than crazy.
The “madness” carries over into last evening’s AV work at my folk’s house. Dwight agreed to help me switch out televisions, upgrading to a new LCD system. The unit comes with an iPod adapter. The adapter enables you to watch videos from you iPod on the screen.. CRAZY
- chillin’ before boarding -
Next stop .. Denver.
More from the air.
Site updated
Download tarball
Extract information tar -zvf latest.tar.gz
bkup – /to/path/of/install/wp-config.php
cp -r wordpress/* /to/path/of/install/.
Golden!
Today marks my tour de vacation – part deux (that is as close to France as I’ll probably get.. maybe French Fries). My interim office visit was very thought provoking more to follow.
It appears there is a new version of WordPress. A fine day fror a blog to die.
Just chillin’ and waiting for one of the munchkins to become functional. First day of the “vacation” and all is quiet. One of the “professional development” projects is to workout a better way of conveying project stats to stakeholders. The immediate task at hand is working out a method to present user cases. I have to admit that even though I appreciate UML and speaking with “case terms,” I’m not a big fan. I would rather put the energy into another presentation of development concepts whether it be a “mapping” document or traditional project management diagram. I’m hoping to open the door enough that others can walk in and help in those areas.
Rails (again)
I find myself wanting to gravitate back to Ruby on Rails for web programming. There is still a big world out there vis-a-vis RoR I don’t understand but it’s just to tantalizing not to revisit. We are working on some LDAP shuffling and I gave a go at use straight Ruby for the processing. It went fairly well but took time to hash it out. I finally gave in and went back to PERL for the task but que cera cera.
That’s a quick post for now. I’ll work some other nonsense later on.