Testing the Email Interface

This blog has an email interface as well, if this message is
displayed then it is working so fantastic.

SINDES and SSH

Spent quite a bit of time guessing how ssh keys are populated across centrally managed hosts at CERN. I had become fed up with keys changing after the frequent reinstalls I'm currently doing. SINDES is the mechanism. It works well though I still have questions about how the files are uploaded in the first place.

Starting a Work Log

I've decided it is high time I kept a decent log of what I am to at work. I used to do this before and it was clearly useful to me and other people. When it went lots of people asked where it went. This will only be the work I'm doing while I work for CERN. It is not meant to be interesting to anyone really and is pretty much just a record of ongoing work.

Created a new Maui build

Following the release of new patch level p17 of maui I built packages for both SL3 and SL4. Unfortunately I did not have machines on which torque could be installed so Yvan and Di came to the rescue with some machines. I now have my own SL3 and SL4 to do with as I wish. This should prove to be very useful. Passed onto the deployment team to go out some time. Will be great to bring torque and maui up to date on the production LCG farm. Will make life a lot easier.