Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

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Entries for December, 2002

3-day trip to mountains

Doing nothing is not enough. I’ll move out to the mountains for a couple of days with all my family (mom, bro, wife, and myself). Driving in the snowy cloud with the speed of 2-steps-on-the-broken-legs proved to be lots of fun.

Olga is back

My wife is back from Russia. Christmas present that is. ;)

Merry Christmas!

I’m still doing nothing.

Mum is here

My mom came over for Christmas holidays. From now on until the 7th of January computer usage will be at a minimum level.

Vacations

Long awated vacations. I have roughly three weeks ahead of me and I am planning to do exactly nothing. Let’s see how well I can manage it.

More reading

Tons and tons of reading about LDAP, PHP, Unix administration, and zillion of other things.

Random bits

Spent most of the day reading about LDAP. I’ve asked my boss to order a couple of books about LDAP. Maybe they will help.

Got a fine for speeding (first in few years, hehe).

Went to a really horrible pub. Strange day.

Oh, yeah, it’s Friday the 13th.

More LDAP

Yet more reading about LDAP and directory services…

LDAP confusion

More reading about LDAP, directory services and the like. While everything is so beautiful according to all documentation, no one cares to actually explain some concepts. We do have OpenLDAP up and running for simple things like global addressbook. Now, how do I give different people different access on different machines? Sudo is good. Sudo is working. But I do have a problem figuring out how to give person A access to host A with ssh, and person B access to host B with ssh and ftp. Whatever I do ends up either in the land of perl scripts or in the land of LDAP aliases, which don’t work with all the versions of both LDAP and Berkley DB.

Filesystem benchmarking

If you need to benchmark filesystems, then check IOzone. It is a really nice tool.