July 29, 2004
New disks
Tags: PACO

I installed four new disks in PACO to fill up its internal drive bays.

The four 36 GB disks are configured in a standard stripe using DiskSuite:

  • metainit d10 1 4 c0t9d0s0 c0t10d0s0 c0t11d0s0 c0t12d0s0

d10 is a single 138 GB volume mounted under /data3 presently.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 03:47 PM
April 30, 2004
Java Upgraded
Tags: PACO

We upgraded Java in order to test a new financial aid upgrade in Banner.

The financial aid upgrade requires the newer version of Java. Instructions for performing the upgrade can be found on the Java 2 SDK installation notes web page. On PACO, the previous version of Java has non-conflicting packages in /usr/java1.1 and /usr/java1.2. We installed all the new SUNWj3* packages, which go into /usr/j2se and relinked /usr/java to point to this directory.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 11:06 AM, updated 08:03 AM November 03, 2005
December 11, 2003
A1000 batteries replaced
Tags: PACO , ROJ

I just replaced the batteries on PACO and ROJ’s A1000 RAID arrays.

ROJ’s battery had actually gone bad, and both were beyond the expiration date. Both were covered under our maintenance contract.

To replace the batteries, the unit must be powered off. The replacement is simply sliding out the old canister and sliding in the new one. Once the system has been restarted, the command ‘raidutil -c target -R’ must be executed to reset the battery age counter on the device.

I also removed the two extra 36 GB drives from ROJ that we had gotten for the AMANDA backups. These will be used in EYEWI for addition onto the disk storage unit.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 08:19 PM, updated 09:29 AM November 03, 2005
October 09, 2003
libxml2
Tags: General , PACO , ROJ

I installed a libxml2 package on PACO and ROJ for development purposes.

Used the GPlxml and GPlxmlx packages, version 2.4.25 for Solaris 8 from Gary Pennington.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 10:46 AM
February 18, 2003
Samba 2.2.7a
Tags: General , HEIWA , KE , PACO , PAX , ROJ , SHANTI

Upgraded Samba on all systems except MIR on Friday morning.

PACO and ROJ are using Sunfreeware.com packages (requires the popt package). All others are using FreeBSD packages built on my workstation.

On installation on SHANTI, it somehow overwrote all individual entries in the smbpasswd file such that passwords were null and accounts were disabled. Restored from previous night's backup.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 08:23 AM, updated 08:57 AM March 04, 2003