Is it me?

Posted on February 29th, 2004 in Stuff by pete

Or are disabled parking spaces used by any twat who can’t be bothered walking more than a few yards?

I was sitting in a car park today with the lad asleep in the back of Jude’s car, about 20 yards from the disabled parking spaces. In the 20 minutes I was there I saw one car with an orange badge out of 7 or 8 people who parked there. One!

All sorts of cars, all sorts of people - all happy to pull up and dump the car for a few minutes to save themselves a short walk. Finally, a family pulled up in an older car, found no spaces and parked in the normal area. The woman driver who got out was clearly disabled and hard a hard time covering the ground to the store. When she passed the bottle blonde who’d dumped her Audi TT in the disabled area I wanted to scream at them - “That’s her! That’s the cow who took your space, there’s nothing wrong with her. Look, she’s healthy” And there wasn’t anything wrong with her. Nothing that a good dressing down couldn’t have fixed.

As per usual I said nothing…..

eDir Disaster Recovery on Solaris (and Linux)

Posted on February 29th, 2004 in Work by pete

I’ve been doing a lot of testing of restoring eDirectory 8.7.1 on Solaris servers for that last few weeks. The documentation is pretty good, but in the case where you lose all the servers in the tree, you can be in quite a bind. This is the procedure I followed to get a healthy(ish) tree back. It does require a bit of preparation in that I have a very basic tree installed with Role Based Services configured. Just the one user - admin - and he is the collection owner for all roles. Take a copy of the dib set for this tree and tar it up - keep this safe! This will be our ‘get out of jail free’ card when things go pear-shaped. To begin the restore, install eDir as per usual on the new server, copy this dib set into /var/nds/dib, bounce eDir and get the ball rolling.

Not quite there…..

Posted on February 28th, 2004 in Stuff by pete

We decided to change hosting company recently - the last lot were a bit slow in getting back to you with any queries and one & one were doing a deal on their managed and root servers for £29 per month, so here we are.

Still having minor problems with the server, nothing too severe since I managed to transfer both of Luke’s domains and Jude’s company domain across, but the blog is a bit stuffed. A bit more fiddling around needed…..