The Life of a Sysadmin

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Entries from February 2007.

Didn't even drown or anything!
Sun Feb 11 20:12:09 PST 2007

Arlo swimming

This was Arlo's first time going all the way under water. He was definitely surprised by the whole operation, but he didn't panic or cry or anything. Such a trooper.

Tags: geekdad.
Disgust
Mon Feb 12 15:11:01 PST 2007

Disgust is the feeling you get when you realize that the sudden and mysterious failures you've been tracking down for the last half hour happened because you typed $debug == 1;.

Tags: bug.
Nexenta, pkgsrc
Mon Feb 26 15:23:45 PST 2007

I've finally got pkg-src working on the Solaris 9 machine at work. I've been banging my head against this stupid thing for two weeks, only to find that a) you really do need /usr/ccs/lib in your path, and b) you should check everywhere to make sure GNU's ld isn't in your path (if you're on Solaris). Now everything is compiling happily.

And in other news, I've been working on Nexenta for the last couple of weeks, trying to help knock down the bugs preventing a beta release. My development skills are limited but at least some of the problems are within my reach. There's not a lot of traffic on the mailing list, or on IRC, which worries me a little…but the commit log is nice and busy, so that's good. And I got that package of IceWM I was looking for. :-)

Tags: opensolaris, packagemanagement.

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