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13
Aug 2008
1:54 AM PDT
   

Wednesday 8/13/2008

Good morning.

7:30 - talking with Becky on IM

- Clover & Basil need to be added to the backup rotation.� Opened ticket 469134 to (ch)InkPen and pointed lgto to haydn for backups.

- Becky already talked with Staph-O about monitoring.

8:00 - Emails floating about regarding IM00105055 and the SMTP routing of inbound and outbound mail through our parent company's Domino servers.� This is probably what's killing my POP3 on the Blackbird project and I sent an email to Rob (THE HORACE GUY) about it.

8:30 Not sure if the ENG/OPS meeting is still on, but I'm double booked with this and PD2.� PD2 will be priority.

- No call yet from wick prick regarding the changes made to the DOCU boxes.

8:55 - Need to add a few user accts for people in Dev:

Prince Chili Longhorn: sudo access

Wick Prick : account in dev portal with sudo

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9:00 - Things I NEED to get done today

- Switch off password prompt on sudo in non-prod

- verify nsswitch.conf entries are files ldap winbind for passwd & dns files for hosts

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9:00 - ENG/OPS meeting.� DC got all hung up on my desire to shut off the password prompt for non-prod.� I really wish that people would refrain from offering opinions on technology that they neither use, nor understand.� kthxbye.

10:15 Rob (THE HORACE GUY) says to use� entddcmfs01 instead of ohcollnp039 for PFF so I forwarded that out to Prince Chili Longhorn and Tigger.

10:30 - Finally joined the team meeting, already in progress.

�12:55 : Non-prod: verified nsswitch.conf orders and set PermitRoot to NO in the sshd_config file, restarted sshd.� For NON Prod, all direct root access is officially gone.

- The wick Pricks are still testing my script changes.� They had one weird issue which Chops couldn't find a reason for and they can't reproduce it, so we're going to assume all is OK.�

- Just for clarification, the changes I made to their scripts make the WICK DOCU environment function the way it was originally designed and documented.� I have remediated the jackassery done by whomever thought they were clever and re-wrote them to do something they should never have done to begin with.

- Friday Night Change control - Must fix prod scripts for WICK ::before:: altering the the sshd_config or changing the root password in Prod.

1:45 - Becky needs me to check the OV environment to make sure the mail relay hosts are pointing to the right place.� apricot, iris, basil, and clover are the kids I checked first - apricot has 'mailhost' instead of 'mail', but they resolve the same so I'm okay with leaving them as-is.

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    About Me: Little Plastic Castle is an extension of This Child's Life which is not hosted at inboxjournal. This blog will make little sense to anyone other than myself. It's a stream of consciousness log of what I do on a daily basis in my job as a UNIX computer systems engineer. o/~ "They say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine...so the little plastic castle is a surprise every time, and its hard to say if they're happy, but they don't seem much to mind." o/~ I endeavor to respect confidentiality and thus I use nicknames for the people I work with. (Mr. T, Ratface, Jerry, Cartman, Grandpa Simpson, Slick, and so on.) I drop system names in here and abbreviations, but any note that requires something like a FQDN will always be marked private. You can comment if you like, but I'll only respond if I feel like it.

    Interests: Cast of Characters: Just a few of the names I use for people, this is the nickname and what their job responsibility is. Mr. T - My Direct Manager (Engineering) Slick - ESX Specialist Cartman - Network Engineering Lead Grandpa Simpson - Network Engineer Becky - WebSphere Engineer Ratface - Developer/Architect Jerry - Project Manager (BTI) Matt T. - Project Manager (Blackbird) The Martian - Application Developer AVP Ice Queen - Engineering AVP Chez - Assistant to Ice Queen Watts - Engineering/Development Sr. Mgr. Hoppy - I.T. Security LDAP Squirrelface - I.T. Security Accts Woodchuck - I.T. Security Accts Russian Bride - Application Tester Trisha - Testing AVP Tequila - UNIX Admin OPS Chops - UNIX Admin OPS Mac - UNIX Engineer (Contractor, works with Tequila & Chops) Margie - SAN specialist (ch)InkPen - Backup Specialist Chimpy - OPS Mgr Duke - UNIX Lead even though he knows nothing about UNIX