One of the problems I had when I was copying content from my old WordPress site to the Drupal site was that while I could set the authoring date, I could not get that date applied uniformly throughout each article. Only the created date was being set, and the updated date on the article was showing when I did the copy/paste. But, a pointer and a bit of research, and I figured out how to fix this with a PHP script and drush scr. And I even fixed the dates on comments as well.

When I first got started with computers, there really was no choice for how you installed software. Indeed, you tended to do things like boot off a different cassette tape, pluggable cartridge or later, floppies. But then, there was a little bit of evolution, and you would boot the operating system off of one set of media, and insert a new floppy to run the program. There were no hard drives for these computers, those were reserved for the systems which colleges/universities and businesses had, and they cost in some cases, tens of thousands of dollars.

If you look back through my previous entries, you will see several mentions of Cobbler and Koan, which I have used for doing RHEL Kickstart installs. The past several weeks, I have been working towards migrating 70+ host definitions and associated distribution/repository information from an old Cobbler 2.8.3 install to a totally fresh install of Cobbler 3.3.6.

Lots of things yet to do, but welcome to my drupal site. I just finished copying/pasting my old posts from my old WordPress site to this site by hand. Thank goodness there were only 31 and not more, as it took me the entire morning to do this!!!

So, as a part of my working to retire an ancient (20 year old) server which I have been using as a NFS server, among other things, I had one major task before me... fix things so that my NAS server could be used for the what I intended. But I was having some issues around 8 years ago when I first tried this, and I don't remember all the issues, since work kept me from attacking this problem at the time.

I just posted a video which briefly goes into SELinux, how it relates to cobbler, and how to tell if an error is related to SELinux.

https://youtu.be/8c7MKGNYxqA

A brief update on the ongoing process of getting a new, up-to-date cobbler server running with the associated DNS and DHCP services. We discuss some of the issues encountered so far, including briefly discussing SELinux issues, and touch upon next steps which will hopefully have us successfully complete the installation.

It has been awhile since I have posted anything here, mainly due to work, and more recently the lack of it. One of the things I have been doing while pursuing a new job is upgrading one of my core servers, where my DNS, DHCP and cobbler servers run. It is an older, home-built 4U server with an Athlon 2500 processor, and has functioned remarkably well for more than 15 years (as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it).

Well, earlier today, I got a reminder that I had not upgraded PHP. Indeed, unlike most of my installs, the virtual host running my WordPress sites was installed from a Live CD, and was running the dated PHP 5.4 version which CentOS/RHEL 7 comes with as a part of their base. It is a joy of running an operating system which comes with "long term support", aka LTS.

While the title may indicate that this is a core dump post, I won't quite say that it clears that hurdle... quite... But it is definitely a frustration which has raised its head a few times, and over the past 24 hours, went from a minor nuisance to a major frustration.