A talk I gave at PICC 12 on mock

Slides available here

A talk I gave with Ben Rose at PICC12.

Slides are on google docs.

http://goo.gl/Swg4G

Exported resources cheat sheet

Update: I noticed that the syntax for vacationStart and vacationEnd do not permit integer comparisons. So I changed them from 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.40 to 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15. This change allows you to make a gnarwl search string that uses the current time to check if a vacation is active.

This is just a case of RTFM but I thought I'd share...

While playing around with getting host entries to work with ldap, I found that my previous code for using gethostbyname was not running clean on puias6. Here is an updated version


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We store our host information in ldap. Previously using ldap for host lookups was done by adding the appropriate entries to /etc/ldap.conf and changing nsswitch.conf.

With 6, nss_ldap has been replaced by nslcd, so I needed to change our setup a little.
I put the following into nslcd.conf


uid nslcd
gid ldap
uri ldap://ldap2.example.com


A friend of mine was talking about his design for a shell that would allow you to programatically reuse arguments. I started looking and found that bash can do this but not programatically (at least as far as I know). The syntax was slighty confusing but here is the summary, it blew my mind when I started using it (but I'll probably forget it again soon enough, like all the awesome things you can do in vi if you can remember...)

Here goes, lets copy a file from a deeply nested path to our location by first tab-completing the filename with ls

After upgrading to horde 4.0.8 and imp 5.0.9 a few users had issues reading email. There were some messages missing, or for some users no messages at all.

There's probably an easier way to do this, but I just put this in my aliases and it works well enough.

alias fl='(for file in `find .??* * -maxdepth 0 -type d`; do du -hs $file 2>/dev/null; done) |sort -h -k 1'

One of our ldap seconaries was failing to stay in sync with the main server. We kept getting "Consumer failed to replay change" in the error log. The uniqueid and CSN were always the same, so at first I thought it was specific to the record that was being propogated.