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--- haas:status [2015/12/02 14:24] – wedge
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   * update grade not-z scripts to handle/be aware of winter terms
   * update system page for (new)www
-    * include information on db server
-  * upgrade mail VM to jessie/opensmtpd
-  * upgrade LDAP VMs to jessie
-  * create new router, using OpenBSD 5.7
   * scripts to write:
     * user homedir backup pruning script
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     * http://www.askapache.com/linux/rxvt-xresources.html
 ======Other Days======
-======December 2nd, 2015======
-=====OpenBSD LDAP authentication via XDM=====
-So this has been slightly enigmatic... trying to get logins working via xdm (it seemed to not be querying LDAP).
-I re-checked my config, using the best reference:
+======August 28th, 2022======
+=====updated dokuwiki=====
+After enduring constant nags of available updates that I could never resolve, and despite an active semester underway, I committed to updating to the recent major release of dokuwiki (igor), and after wrestling with various file permission issues, was seemingly successful in performing the upgrade AND eliminating the annoying nag messages.
+=====dokuwiki included pages no edit button (fixed)=====
+I wanted a read-only base project page, with notes namespace-included content that users could edit.
-  * https://www.talamasca.pl/projects/talamasca/wiki/OpenBSD_with_LDAP_-_system_authentication
+Unfortunately, that particular combination did not work, at least, not until I did some searching and found: https://github.com/dokufreaks/plugin-include/issues/132
-I tried checking the logs.
+<code php>
+function html_secedit($text,$show=true){
+    global $INFO;
-But, the issue was apparently NOT LDAP.
+    if((isset($INFO) && !$INFO['writable']) || !$show || (isset($INFO) && $INFO['rev'])){
+        $include_SEC_EDIT_PATTERN = '#<!-- EDIT{(?!.*PLUGIN_INCLUDE).*?} -->#';
+        return preg_replace($include_SEC_EDIT_PATTERN,'',$text);
+    }
-This helpful post clued me in:
+    return preg_replace_callback(SEC_EDIT_PATTERN,
+                'html_secedit_button', $text);
+}
+</code>
+======March 12th, 2020======
-  * http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bzDSclBupEYJ:www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0405/msg00421.html+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
+=====borked journal, maybe fix=====
-For if we start **xdm** with full debugging verbosity:
+<code>
+tune2sf -O ^has_journal /dev/<dev>
+e2fsck -f /dev/<dev>
+tune2sf -j /dev/<dev>
+</code>
+Obtained from:
+  * https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/aborted-journal-and-volume-remounted-read-only-812216/
+======November 21st, 2019======
+=====pi4b dual head=====
+Apparently I was missing something when building up from the lite version of raspbian. For when I popped in a new raspbian (the full desktop version) everything came up just fine.
+Oh well. At least things are now working as they should.
+======November 19th, 2019======
+=====pi4b dual head issues=====
+Attempting to set up a fresh raspbian install on the pi4b. Strangely, getting issues with dual head: it is only coming up in mirrored mode (or when I play with it, not at all).
+The only major variables that have changed:
+  * new raspbian release (I could test my old setup.. that is easy enough to verify)
+  * no longer using HDMI monitors, but the DVI connections on the LAIR monitors.
+    * further investigation suggests the pi may be seeing identical EDIDs and other monitor ID things, so it is defaulting to a mirroring mode.
+    * **tvservice -l** consistently identifies two displays, so the hardware sees it, the software is not.
+Interestingly: my old raspbian setup IS working properly. So what is different between the two?
+======March 15th, 2018======
+Setting up the raspberry pi 3 for use in the comporg class. Named it **pi3b**, and will get the IP of 10.80.2.48; running the latest stable release of rasbian.
+Looking to get LDAP and autofs going, then installing packages to make it minimally functional for our purposes.
+======March 6th, 2018======
+Aside from an attempt at restarting my status-reporting habits in January of 2017, I totally neglected it for the remainder of the year.
+So here we go, attempting another go. Will we be successful?
+=====pods configured for better SSD operation=====
+In other recent projects, I encountered some useful configuration options to improve performance, and avoid some anti-longevity side-effects of default settings.
+I ended up taking a Debian USB installer, booting each pod in rescue mode, getting to a prompt, and running the following on EACH:
 <cli>
-# xdm -debug 255 -nodaemon
+# umount /
-...
+# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda1
+# tune2fs -o discard /dev/sda1
 </cli>
-We can clearly see it is kicking us out because the user's default shell (bash) is NOT listed in /etc/shells. Adding it fixed the problem and everything lit up as it should.
+Then on the master nodes, I enhanced both **/etc/fstab** and **/etc/rc.local** as follows:
-=====xdm config=====
+<code>
-Now that I've gotten the xdm login situation resolved, it is time to apply configuration tweaks.
+# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
+#
+# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>         <dump>  <pass>
+/dev/sda1       /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,discard,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0       1
+tmpfs           /tmp            tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
+tmpfs           /var/log        tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
+tmpfs           /var/spool      tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
+tmpfs           /var/tmp        tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
+</code>
-======December 1st, 2015======
+Note how I put the log files in RAM too (on the pods)... this should greatly reduce extraneous writes.
-=====The future: vertical OpenBSD desktops=====
-I thought to tinker with rotating the display orientations to the left, so monitors could be turned on their sides (freeing up a significant amount of desk space).
-The basic trick is with **xrandr**, which I accomplished in **/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc**:
+Then at the bottom of **/etc/rc.local**, I added:
-<code bash>
+<code>
-xrandr --output VGA-0 --off --output DisplayPort-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 1280x0 --rotate left --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x0 --rotate left
+#!/bin/sh -e
+#
+# rc.local
+#
+IPADDR=
+while [ -z "${IPADDR}" ]; do
+        IPADDR=`/usr/local/bin/iface | /bin/grep -v 'lo' | /usr/bin/head | /usr/bin/cut -d' ' -f2`
+        sleep 1
+done
+/bin/hostname `/usr/bin/host ${IPADDR} | /usr/bin/cut -d' ' -f5 | /bin/sed s/\.$//`
+/usr/bin/host ${IPADDR} | /usr/bin/cut -d' ' -f5 | /bin/sed s/\.$//  > /etc/hostname
+echo "${IPADDR}    `cat /etc/hostname`"                              > /etc/hosts
+echo "127.0.0.1    localhost"                                       >> /etc/hosts
+echo "10.80.2.46   lab46.g7n.org lab46.corning-cc.edu"              >> /etc/hosts
+echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
+echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/fifo_batch
+exit 0
 </code>
-The lingering problem is that XDM logins do not appear to be workingeee
+As the **deadline** scheduler has frequent mention of usage with SSDs.
+Useful URLs:
+  * [[https://github.com/alghanmi/ubuntu-desktop_setup/wiki/SSD-Configuration-on-Linux]]
+  * [[https://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubuntu-for-better-performance/]]
+  * [[https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization]]
+=====lab46too SSD updates=====
+With the pods having seen their SSD updates, I am looking to do the same for lab46too, testing to make sure the similar changes can be applied to that machine before rolling them over to lab46 proper.
+I've updated the /etc/fstab and /etc/rc.local files accordingly on lab46, so those changes have been synced over to lab46too on a recent rsync run.
+I had to remove the commit=600 from the /home partition. For some reason it didn't want to mount with that.
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