Category: System’s Logbook

Dutch OpenVMS forums have been set up.

Today I created the OpenVMS forums, configuration isn’t finished yet, but it will be – soon! I have created one for system management, one on networking, one on native programs and one for porting. Of course, this is just the start.

These forums I’d like to do in Dutch – because there are enough sites in English. Of course there will de data duplicated, and there will no doubt be information suitable for translation. But I have a full-time job and too little time to do all translations (Anyone who has time to moderate the forum, can contact me – the ususal way)

The same way I ” multiplied” the blogs from the testing environment. There was one issue, just my mistake: I didn’t copy the files in the [install.schema] directory to the right spot. Once that was done, creation went fine, but once again, config.php wasn’t writable (weird: both the file and the directory were write enabled. But perhaps the file should be deletable?

Once this is Ok, the genealogical forums on the GROOTERS family will be added to the system.

For this, I use MySQL 4.1 and the WASD PHP engine (that is basically a wrap-up of HP’s MOD_PHP for SWS), and the package I use is PHPBB2 – without ANY modifications. 

Bulletin Board

software has been installed and configured. I guess theer will be a number of forums, and the software allows it to be all in one database but I still have to investigate how to achieve this in a managable way. Since I don’t have all day nor every evening free to monitor and moderate the forums, it will be limited for the moment.

Forum’s I’m thinking of:

• An OpenVMS forum – not a copy of well-known forums like OpenVMS.org but more focussed on small users. professional of hobbyist (in some cases, the difference is hard to tell). this should be an open forum but I want to have it free of spam – and that MUSt be secure and strong from the beginning. What’s in the HOW-TO pages will get in there, and it can be commented – whenever you like to use it. I’m not certain yet to make just one, where English its the language tio use (the advantage it can be more international oriented) or to make a Dutch one. Or both, but that would be a challenge to keep the in sync….
• One genealogical one – on the Grooters/Groters family.
• I have been thinking of a forum for a small skater-shop but I’ll have to look into that as well.

Each of them preferrably on a place of i’t’s own, the same way as this blog is located in the web – but I’m not sure that will work. One of those things to think about.

Web updated

with the Jura pictures, Rita’s quilt, and the pictures taken last year in the Meie Gardens (better late than never…). The greek pictures and an update on our scultering is still to be done.

Of course, looked at the system and did some housekeeping.

Just webcontent

to be updated: This year’s holidays: One to France (Jura) and one to Greece – a hiking trip of two weeks. That content includes maps – to be scanned and scaled. A daunting task that will take time.

Tracks of what has been walked and cycled will be included

Bind is Ok

it seems, since there were no reports of Internet connectivity not working. Si I guess it was just a glitch in the interaction between Diana and the router. No problems aftre yesterday (excpet that at some point, the PHP process ran out of file quota, but whether these were VMS of PHP-internal could not be found.

One  more (minor) issue with PHP – and I found this before:

%HTTPD-W-NOTICED, 23-NOV-2006 22:13:17, CGI:1969, not a strict CGI response
-NOTICED-I-SERVICE, http://www.grootersnet.nl:80
-NOTICED-I-CLIENT, 192.168.0.33
-NOTICED-I-URI, GET (18 bytes) /sysblog/index.php
-NOTICED-I-SCRIPT, /sysblog/index.php sysblog:[000000]index.php (cgi_exe:phpwasd.exe) SYSBLOG:[000000]index.php
-NOTICED-I-CGI, 254445425547424F4F542D572D43484E2C2061737369676E (62 bytes) %DEBUGBOOT-W-CHN, assign channel system service request failed
-NOTICED-I-RXTX, err:0/0 raw:495/0 net:495/0

It’s this message that triggers the “Not a strict CGI response” situation. Something within PHP fails to (re)connect to a channel. It’s a sprurious error and mostly nothing is wrong, just once in a while this happens. Stopping the sub-process heals – but it should  not happen….

(I guess the previous trouble posting had the same cause)