Drupal Documentation Updated for 7.7

The IT Con­nect Dru­pal Instal­la­tion Doc­u­men­ta­tion has been updated to reflect the lat­est changes to the Dru­pal install process. The issue with .htac­cess files no longer ship­ping with the sites/default/files is still occur­ring. For now, I’m rec­om­mend­ing that you should edit the .htac­cess file man­u­ally if and when these issues occur. It’s not entirely clear when… Read More


Revenge of the Load Charts

If you haven’t guessed by now, I love load graphs. They’re inter­est­ing and can often reveal oth­er­wise hid­den aspects of a server. We’ve had a lot of inter­est­ing events hap­pen recently on our uni­form access sys­tems, and there’s noth­ing to wrap all of those up with a recap involv­ing load graphs! Aesop01 Reboot One our… Read More


Cronjob and Full Paths

tl;dr: Run­ning cron­jobs with scp fails. Use “/usr/local/bin/scp” instead. Longer Ver­sion: A par­tic­u­larly vex­ing and not all-together intu­itive issue is that a com­mand that works per­fectly fine in your ter­mi­nal, such as ‘scp file.txt nikky@otherhost.cac.washington.edu:~,‘ fails when put into your crontab on a Uni­form Access sys­tem with the mes­sage of “Scp: com­mand not found.” This is… Read More


UW Blogs Network Presentation

I’m cur­rently work­ing on the UW Blogs Net­work project. There will be a lot more about this project in the com­ing months, but I recently gave a brief overview pre­sen­ta­tion about it to the UW Web Coun­cil. If you missed the coun­cil meet­ing, you can view the pre­sen­ta­tion via PDF for­mat. UW Word­Press Net­work: A… Read More


Ovid, MySQL, and Web Publishing Outages

As you may have noticed recently, there had been some slow­downs and ser­vice out­ages involv­ing web pub­lish­ing and MySQL data­bas­ing on uni­form access and www sys­tems. We have dis­cov­ered the cause of these out­ages, and have a workaround in place while replace­ment parts are ordered and installed. This may have impacted your MySQL server. To… Read More