Day: July 3, 2008

Patches and new software installed
and some more bits of new software: A new Python environment (that has been around for some time) has also been enabled, the database disk container, just holding the MySQL log files has been shrinked to a quarter of it’s size; Samba re-installed (but it still needs to be tested)… It meant adjustment of the startup procedures – minor, in fcat. A good moment since I did have to reboot after patch installation.
Immediately it became clear that the definition of the logical that holds the filename of the home page text was missing, and so the home page didn’t show up. It’s not in the startup at the moment, I’ll need to make a default to prevent it from happening.
Another thing that’s wrong: thw VMS wiki doesn’t start, caused by another reference to the previous Python environment. An easy change, and just execute the file. It’s just that the logo doesn’t show up, caused by another missing logical. It refers to the MoinMoin version, hardcoded, in the configuration file, so that’s to be changed as well – until the right logical is set (moin_static – no version number…). The other porblem is I’ll need to copy the images as well.
As it turned out: the VMS wiki mapping in embedded in the normal web configuration, not in an include file…. Once that was updated, all is well.
Rdb
Planned quite some time ago was an installtion of RdB , the real OpenVMS database. The system has been configured to cope with it’s requirements, and now it’s time to give it a try.
However, installation fails for unclear reasons on the creation of accounts. According the installation guide, the error would occur if the installing account would have a locked password (have the lockpwd flag set in UAF) but that is not the case. Got myself an Oracle Metalink account (thanks to the company) to ask. (Is it meaningfull that the message from the installation procedue mentioned the wrong chapter in the guide?)