Counting blog access
Wordpress has a statistics plugin, and I enabled this for both this blog and the Trips,Tracks and Travels one.
For the rest, all seems fine now. The problem yesterday had to do with starting the DecWindows login screen on the console. Where the Regigiuster problem came from, I don’t know. Nothing alike has been mentioned in the operator log…
08-Nov-2008
Cleaned obsolete stuff
I cleaned up some things now obsolete – and removed a bit too much: the WP23 contained the BC2008 blog… A good thing I back-up the database daily so tonight I’ll try to restore it in the WordPress database. Just the sql files needs to be adapted and that cannot be done on VMS *record size exteds the RMS capacity of 32K) ; so I’ll copy the file to one of the Ubuntu boxes and do the update there. Hopefully, that will work.
I do have a backup of the whole database anyway, worst case I’ll have to rebuild it from the ground up. But that’s an excercise I’ve done before.
It turned out not too bad, in the end. Using the umpfile of the daily backup job, taken just before the database was upgraded, contained all the data but it needed to be edited. The only way to process this 20Mb file was moving it to Maya – the Ubuntu laptop – and process is using VIM. Quite some work if you’re not acustomed to this editor….
I was able to extract just that part of the dump (Of course, I loaded the data into the WordPress database (minort change in the file :)), moved it over to Diana and sourced in in MySQL; Changed the database in the configuration – and the Bootcamp 2008 blog is back online!
System disk backup incomplete
In tthe prelude to this excercise, I found the backup’ed systemdisk could not be mounted:
%MOUNT-F-INVALIDSCB….
Pushed the question onto ITRC with an explanation how it may have happened: Lost connection to the rpocess running the BACKUP image; and although it seemed to continue, it didn’t, appearantly, since the error is the result of a non-complete image backup. So I’ll have to redo it….
I thought it might have been solved by rebooting Diana, and for that reason, I installed the latest patch; It required a reboot anyway.
The system started – but it seems there is a slight problem; The registry was started (weird) of would it have been SAMBA that caused the warning? And there is a potential pool expansion problem…
To be looked at tomorrow.
03-nov-2008
No downloads, No Samba
Just found out that the disk containing the downloads – and that is a target for Samba – hasn’t been mounted. So for the time being: No downloads. and no access over Windows (not an issue anyway) until this has been repaired tonight.
Update
$116$dka105: is now mounted and the download area is available. I cannot tell for Samba, but it’ll be likewise. (You won’t be able to access the shares over the Internet; the ports are blocked :))
Still no access
on the admin pages for Trips, Tracks and Travels. It might be a matter of ‘secret” – the method uswed within WordPress to encrypt the passwotrd. I’ll need to check and adjust the configuration files to get around the issue.
02-Nov-2008
Patches = reboot
Since July 22nd, no patches have been applied, but new ones were available. In all, 11 of them: one big consolidated patch (that included a number that I already had installed), about 8 that were not included in that update, and TCPIP. Of course, I made a backup of the system disk, and when that ran, the connection was lost but the process continued and died once the backup was done.
Updates of this type means a reboot – and all went well, except that the VMS wiki seemed to have lost the stylesheets, and the main page that is not updated – I need to create a new text anyway so up to that time, it’ll be just the reboot text. It’s just a logical to be set properly. But that new file is not yet finished and uploaded….
The problem with the VMS wiki was simple: the logical referring to the static pages referred the wrong device: LDA21: in stead of LDA11: ; I changed the references to the containers for Python and related software, but forgot to adjust the MOIN_STATIC logical. Well, tha’s settles now.
Old error solved
I got a mail yesterday siganlling there was an “s” missing in on eof my older pages: The “back home” link was indeed short of an “s” – referring “grooternet” in stead of “grootersnet”.
That was an easy update. Thanks, Mira!
01-Nov-2008
Mail statistics
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages : 3123 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 2019 = 64.6 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts : 113 = 3.6 o/o (Files: 31)
Processed by PMAS : 991 = 31.7 o/o (Files: 31)
Discarded : 311 = 31.3 o/o (processed), 9.9 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 250 = 25.2 o/o (processed), 8.0 o/o (all)
Delivered : 430 = 43.3 o/o (processed), 13.7 o/o (all)
Cleanup today includes removal of the now obsolete versions of WordPress, including the databases, since all blogs are now on 2.6.3; version 2.7 is now in BETA, perhaps I’ll start testing it with them, or some of them, to be prepared to update when the final version arrives later this month.
There are a number of updates that need to be installed, the last round has been installed four months ago, and there are a number of required ones.