[colug-432] I've updated the website ...

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Thu Sep 29 12:59:23 EDT 2011


with Brian's presentation notes from last night
 	http://www.colug.net/notes/20110928/

Thanks, Brian

While there, I cleaned up http://www.colug.net/notes/ a bit

If a past presenter thinks they sent along notes that never 
made it to the site, please advise and resend content othe 
'colux' email address, and it will be added, along with the 
notation of credit at:
 	http://www.colug.net/presentations/

The process of slotting in 'well formed content' is described 
at:
 	http://www.colug.net/notes/CMS_process_to_use/

and can be as basic as making a directory, linking some PHP 
in, and adding a couple files.  When there are third party 
non-text content such as PDF, and ODF files, as in Brian's 
case, this was as simple as making:

[root at stones 20110928]# cat title.txt
Open LDAP, and SASL - Brian Miller

[root at stones 20110928]# cat fileindex.txt
Brian Miller walked through a large scale Open LDAP setup he 
administers
with:<br>
<ul><li>several tens of thousands of end user accounts 
scattered across</li>
<li>several hundred machines, and </li>
<li>dozens of client applications</li></ul><br>

I know, I know, root access

But it has been a fairly durable solution that, seeing Paul 
Hostetler at the meeting last night, reminded me that it has 
lasted for a decade with minimal maintenance load

The colug box itself has moved from chassis to chassis over 
time.  Sadly, I see that good old 'bopper' may finally have 
succumbed, as it is not responding to pings any more.  I'll 
have to stop over at the station and see

The last prior died earlier this year, so I asked a friend to 
bring me something out of the boneyard. I jumped the hard 
drive into that chassis, and did a CentOS 'upgradeany' bounce 
from an ancient cAos one-off orphan into the 5 series in March

-- Russ herrold


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