Updates
The first of a number of updates and upgrades: PMAS is now at 3.2, fairly new (released in July 2010), there is just one change that I have to take care of: the action taken on the message, which is stored in the log file, can now be two characters: The first states what action was performed on the message, the second states the source: by a user rule or a system rule and so on. The changes won’t be a big: just that the first (and probably only) character of the action taken, the rest of the code is not effected. Or perhaps I could note the difference in the statistics but that’s hardly significant in my case.
Second – and just in time, the license has been renewed. That is: the new license that I had around already, has been applied before the old one expired – today. So I’m protected for another year.
Another “upgrade” has to do with storage.
The logical device where I store most of the web-content, had been set up to be 8 Gb, but it filled up to well over 85%. I extended the file to twice it’s size ($ LD/EXTEND/SIZE=33600000) but the actual size reported remained the previous 16800000 blocks and still over 85% full). I couldn’t find a way to get around it and so I asked on ITRC when I was elsewhere. I got the answer, the only one without taking everything down for a prolonged period, as was proposed by Jon Pinkley and Hein van den Heuvel: Simply using this sequence:
$ DISMOUNT LDA1 ! I had to add /ABORT since some process kept a file open.
$ MOUNT/OVER = ID LDA1
$ SET VOLUME/LIMIT=33600000
$ SET VOLUME/SIZE=33600000
$ DISMOUNT LDA1
$ MOUNT/SYSTEM LDA1
gave me the full 16Gb containerfile available. Lots of storage to publish tracking data and photographs.
More to come soon:
VMS updates – perhaps an upgrade to 8.4, when I get hold of media….(and patches!)
Webserver update (WASD 10.0.2)
PHP (the Mark Berryman 5.2.13 version)
WP (3.0.1)
MySQL (5.1.49)
PhpMyAdmin (3.whatever)
It also means a somewhat new configuration of the web server….But that is under construction.