work work ...

Work's been busy. Checking status also evening/night and morning.

Scripting satyup/monitoring scripts and doing manual monitoring of site to keep data coming.
A couple of apps are regularily hanging or crashing.
1 because of using too much memory
2 because of a couple of bugs (hang+crash).

For now scripting fun monitors things, restarts anything (including monitor scripts! if they die (happens when all memory used on box)). Hackery jiggery pokery.

And raid where all user accounts had something going on - was SLOOOOOW for 2 days.
Everyone moved to working on local disk which was full faster than two blinks of an ethernet-status-led.

STATFILEINFO2=$STATFILEINFO1
STATFILEINFO1=$STATFILEINFO
STATFILEINFO=`ls -al status.txt`
if [[ "$STATFILEINFO" == "$STATFILEINFO1" ]] ; then
   if [[ -z $STATFILEALERT ]] ; then
      date
      echo "WARNING: status.txt file no change STATFILEINFO=$STATFILEINFO"
   fi
   STATFILEALERT=$(date)
else
   STATFILECHANGING=$(date)
   if [[ -n $STATFILEALERT ]] ; then
      date
      echo "CLEAR WARNING: status.txt file no change STATFILEINFO=$STATFILEINFO"
   fi
   STATFILEALERT=

fi

installing git (and in particular git-svn on solaris)

This might make you really really glad you use a linux with a sane package manager!
Thanks to anyone who wrote on solving Error.pm/SVN::Core.pm problem on the internet.
That helped!

I had one same^H^H^Himilar issue on cygwin and solaris
I want to use git-svn.

cygwin just had one error "Can't locate SVN/Core.pm" (git package was installed).
This solved by installing the additional subversion-perl package.
$ cygcheck.exe -l subversion-perl


solaris (as usual! was more difficult) ... :-E

solaris 10 opensolaris/blastwave doesn't have a git package !? :-o (for intel/amd)
So I have git installed using sunfreeware packages
http://sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html#git
AND make sure all the dependancies are installed from SFW also, see the minor grief I had below missing expat (not for git itself but for getting perl Alien::SVN to compile so I could get git-svn working)

First error "Can't locate Error.pm" solved easily enough.
$ wget home.comcast.net/~ericblake/Error.pm
And copy to somewhere in $PERLLIB path.
$ cp Error.pm /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/

Next error "Can't locate SVN/Core.pm"

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Module::Build
cpan> install Alien::SVN
didn't work :( didn't like /usr/sfw/bin/gmake :(

Manifying blib/man3/Alien::SVN.3
/usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL Build
Too early to specify a build action 'Build'. Do 'Build Build' instead.
gmake: *** [Build] Error 2
/usr/sfw/bin/gmake -- NOT OK

$ cd ~/.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0
$ perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL
## manually enter /usr/sfw/bin/gmake
incidentally, $(/usr/sfw/bin/gmake --version) == "GNU Make 3.81"

$ ./Build
starts building subversion but then argh!
"subversion/libsvn_subr/xml.c", line 34: cannot find include file: <expat.h>

$ pkginfo -l |grep expat
PKGINST: CSWexpat
NAME: expat - XML Parser Toolkit
VENDOR: http://expat.sourceforge.net/ packaged for CSW by Damjan Perenic
NAME: libexpat - XML parser library
DESC: libexpat - XML parser library 1.95.7
$ /usr/sbin/pkgchk -l CSWexpat |grep include
NOTE: Couldn't lock the package database.
Pathname: /opt/csw/include
Pathname: /opt/csw/include/expat.h

meh. :-7 mixing packages from CSW and SFW would be a bit messy
get and install SMCexpat (from sunfreeware)
now:
/usr/local/include/expat.h
/usr/local/include/expat_external.h

$ ./Build
looks better, goes further
... but linking problems
cc: Warning: option -- passed to ld


Oh right. It used sun compiler throughout.
Back to configure.
$ perl Build.pm
Would you like to pass any arguments to configure? [--libdir=/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/Alien/SVN --prefix=/usr/perl5/5.8.4 ]CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc

$ ./Build
...
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset /.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0/src/subversion/subversion/libsvn_subr/.libs/libsvn_subr-1.so
libintl_bindtextdomain /.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0/src/subversion/subversion/libsvn_subr/.libs/libsvn_subr-1.so
libintl_dgettext blame-cmd.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/svn
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [subversion/svn/svn] Error 1
building subversion failed at inc/My/SVN/Builder.pm line 121.


$ vi src/subversion/Makefile
add -lintl to end of BOTH (:-7) of these lines:
SVN_APR_LIBS = /usr/local/lib/libapr-0.la -lsendfile -lrt -lm -lsocket -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lintl
SVN_APRUTIL_LIBS = /usr/local/lib/libaprutil-0.la -ldb-4.2 -lexpat -liconv -lintl

$ ./Build
...
$ ./Build install

I bet if I just took the perl files from Cygwin or linux it would have done the same job ... !?


bash$ svn ls https://$MYREPO
ld.so.1: svn: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/libsvn_subr-1.so.0: symbol libintl_bindtextdomain: referenced symbol not found
Killed

AUGHGHGHGHGHH!

reinstall svn sunfreeware package,

svn okay now but git svn still has lib problems

$ git svn clone https://$MYREPO --trunk=trunk --branches=branches --tags=tags
ld.so.1: git-hash-object: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/bin/git-hash-object: symbol deflateBound: referenced symbol not found
Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 421.

HA! deflateBound is in libz

I'm so STUPID! Get zlib from sunfreeware (remember what I said earlier about ALL dependancies!!)


and I'm running with this
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
probably don't need that but was picking up libgcc, libiconv from /opt/csw instead of /usr/local


So in conclusion: Alien::SVN (which provides SVN::Core) is quite awkward to build for solaris (gmake, cc vs gcc and lib differences on solaris)

WAH! Poor Maeve stays overtime in creche.

We rush up and Fionnuala heads with Daire and Kate to catch school bus.
My turn to bring Maeve in morning today.
Usual pleasant morning bumble around house, I'm logged into work, Maeve plays, get coffee, some housework.
I'm on motorbike so I put on gear before bringing Maeve to creche.

...
At 12:00 I see an email from Fionn.
How is Maeve .... ? wtf ? and :-o
I'm in Clontarf.
Uoh ohhh!
I phone Fionn and she legs it to collect Maeve!

So anyway it would have been handier if I worked from home Fri instead and then Fionn could get bus or whatever to Limerick earlier and I supervise kids while working from home in afternoon and we were talking about doing this and getting Tracy to mind Maeve Wed afternoon. And somehow it got into my head that that was what we were doing. But upon reflection there was never an actual confirm yes we will do that. And Fionn was thinking it was too late notice for Tracy.

Anyway :-7 Maeve was in Eimear's house.
And she's talked about it a couple of times since (and seems a bit chuffed to have visited it!).

"unfortunate mis-communication" =~ a strange format of massive Terabyte disk other disappearance of data.

Maeve going to new creche

Fionn and I are dropping Maeve and then scooting off to work.
My turn with Maeve this morning.

Maeve was grand this morning - hopping to get off to school.
The first week is from 9:30 to 11:30 wah! We didn't expect that.
When Daire and Kate headed out door at 8:11 with Fionn Maeve was all ready and stepped out with them.
SO we found things to distract us for a while, Maeve played and helped unload dishwasher.
We sang some songs after the dishwasher then collected a clothes wash
(but there wasn't really enough so we left it in basket) and she scooted outside and we swept up stones.

Maeve scooted up to giant steps (but path is uneven so not the best even on the flat bit).
Met some parents and kids and tried to catch+remember names.
9:35 clambering on bike and 10:05 in work.