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Kerberos / CIFS / nethz
by Nico Schottelius 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Good morning sysadmins, I'm currently in contact with ID to get the cifs mount working from nas-nethz-users.d.ethz.ch using root@sgv-ubuntu-01:~# mount -t cifs -w -o sec=krb5,user=nicosc,domain=d.ethz.ch,uid=0,gid=0 '//nas-nethz-users.d.ethz.ch/share-n-$' /mnt though still without success, although the kerberos tickets seem to available: root@sgv-ubuntu-01:~# klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: nicosc(a)D.ETHZ.CH Valid starting Expires Service principal 08/30/10 17:52:10 08/31/10 03:52:13 krbtgt/D.ETHZ.CH(a)D.ETHZ.CH renew until 09/06/10 17:52:10 08/30/10 17:52:52 08/31/10 03:52:13 cifs/nas-nethz-users.d.ethz.ch(a)D.ETHZ.CH renew until 09/06/10 17:52:10 If anyone of you had success or knows someone who had success in mounting the cifs home via kerberos, please let me know. If you're interested in getting that stuff to work, a ping would also be great, because ID is quite unaware of any possible users and presumably not very motivated if only one party is interested. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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S and SGE goes 90-day trial license S
by Mosebach Kai 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

FYI, http://scalability.org/?p=2519 S and SGE goes 90-day trial license S SGE, aka, Sun Grid Engine, is the latest bit of HPC collateral damage in the Oracle digestion of Sun. This is not to say its going away, Dan Templeton has a nice post on his site indicating that they have a roadmap and a future. Its just that it is no longer open source. You can¹t use it for more than 90 days w/o a paid license from Oracle. Whoops. This said, the GE community is stepping up to do something about this, though my concern is that Oracle could lean on them a little. This isn¹t a good thing for SGE users (we are/have been one) who use the open source version. I need to check a few other products we¹ve been using in a similar view. If we need to convert to something else, we will. Torque isn¹t terrible (my bad experiences with its predecessor from years ago not withstanding), and there are a few others. Best Kai

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(Using|interested in) puppet?
by Nico Schottelius 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hey guys! Who of you is already using or interested in using puppet? We're preparing a meeting (soon!) with puppet as topic and besides presenting our work, we're wondering what you know / interested in. And we would be happy to see speakers from other groups, to present (in a short manner, around 5-10 minutes) their puppet related work. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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/sans/: Meeting #3: 2010-08-25, Puppet
by Nico Schottelius 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Dear sysadmins, this is probably one of the last announcements send out to individuals about the sans-meetings, further invitations will be only sent to the sans mailing list [0]. Thus, if you're not subscribed, now would be the right time.</blurb> In about 8 days, the next sysadmin meeting, focussing on puppet, will take place! You can find more information on https://sans.ethz.ch/meetings/2010-08-25/ Cheers, Nico [0]: https://sans.ethz.ch/ml -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Looking for a CH Keyboard for Macbook Pro
by Steven Armstrong 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi I need a swiss german keyboard for the following Macbook Pro: 15.4-inch: 2.2GHz(MA895LL) http://support.apple.com/kb/SP17 Does anybody by chance have one of those lying around? >From an old/broken machine or second hand would be fine. Thanks & best wishes, Steven -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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Sysadmin bootstrap series - #2
by Nico Schottelius 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hey sysadmins! The sysadmin bootstrap "series" got a new article: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/sysadmin-bootstrap-2/ Have fun! Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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/sans/ komcenter scripts; bundled httplib2
by Steven Armstrong 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Hi To workarround borked Python installations which have issues with the following error [1], I've bundled the latest version of httplib2 in .../sans/lib/python. This path is prepended to the pythonpath before the scripts are run. If you experience this problem please file a bug with your $distro. commit 200c230d5b38b69155fd913c6b86cc7bdd3a8703 Author: Steven Armstrong <steven.armstrong(a)inf.ethz.ch> Date: Fri Jul 2 10:56:55 2010 +0200 prepend to pythonpath instead of appending Signed-off-by: Steven Armstrong <steven.armstrong(a)inf.ethz.ch> commit 28523c3416d3af292222f66ebf3524a815d54026 Author: Steven Armstrong <steven.armstrong(a)inf.ethz.ch> Date: Fri Jul 2 10:46:28 2010 +0200 remove useless path expansion; version bump commit 60e58df5fac10110e7c70ff34ba8e73787777398 Author: Steven Armstrong <steven.armstrong(a)inf.ethz.ch> Date: Fri Jul 2 10:39:11 2010 +0200 bundle newest version of httplib2 to workaround broken python installations Cheers, Steven -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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/sans/ komcenter scripts; updated to new urls
by Steven Armstrong 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Hi Those of you using the scripts from [1] will have noticed that they broke yesterday. This happened because the komcenter webservices are now only accessible at www.komcenter.ethz.ch instead of komcenter.ethz.ch. A fix has been comitted in 4a7940f8c4951794fe97507b84838a010ff88fab. Cheers, Steven [1] git://git.sans.ethz.ch/sans -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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Reminder /sans/: Second ETH sysadmin meeting: 2010-06-30, 1500
by Steven Armstrong 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi Just a short reminder that we will have our second meeting tomorrow in CAB/E/79 [1]. See http://sans.ethz.ch/meetings/2010-06-30/ for all the glory details. Hope to see ya all there Best wishes, Steven [1] http://www.mapsearch.ethz.ch/map/mapSearchPre.do?lang=en&gebaeudeMap=CAB http://www.rauminfo.ethz.ch/Rauminfo/grundrissplan.gif?gebaeude=CAB&geschos… -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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Bootstrap a sysadmin
by Nico Schottelius 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hey sysadmins! I thought it is a good idea to be able to bootstrap sysadmins and thus started a small blog series, which can be found at http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/sysdamin-bootstrap-1/ Maybe you'll find some things you also do or didn't think of - in any case I wish you fun reading it! Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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