A simple matter of…

Well, that’s another LDAP bug squashed. Well two in fact.
I was initially looking at and LDAP assertion failure which I saw whilst testing. I commented on

Ah, that old chestnut. Well in planning my new setup, I need to come up with a naming scheme. I have an old naming scheme, but there was no big pattern to it (basically mythological creatures).
Ideally I’d like something with several sub-classes to it, e.g. DMZ, test, etc.
I’ve so far seen:

famous computers (e.g. [...]

Well I’ve RMAd the graphics card and obtained a refund, now I just need to see what happens with ATI’s DX10 cards and await the new Nvidia cards mentioned for the first time

Well today I backported libnss-ldap 251-7.1 from etch to sarge and then added this to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf

1. must exclude openldap from slapd to avoid TLS/SSL issues (debian bug #381788)
2. exclude root too

nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,openldap

Since later versions change the defaults, I’m also going to hardcode the timeouts now:

1. Search timelimit

timelimit 10

1. Bind/connect timelimit

bind_timelimit 5

1. Reconnect policy:
2. hard_open: [...]

Well I’ve just had nastiest problem for a long time. Obviously it also comes at a time when I don’t really want an interesting problem to look at.
I’d been rolling out a basebuild to various servers which includes LDAP integration (for ssh, sudo, libc6). All was going swimmingly. Then I upgraded the [...]

As I mentioned the other day, I’m going to be purchasing some monitors to replace my old trustworthy Iiyama visionmaster pro 450.
My normal way of working many years ago was:

1600×1200
netscape or emacs full height at right hand side about 2/3 screen width
three xterms arranged vertically down the left hand side

This used to work brilliantly, a [...]

What a marvellous site

Well, one week in and I guess I should at least _try_ to make some resolutions.
So, here are they are (in no particular order):
do more exercise
I was at least playing squash once a week with