I pushed the 2007 DST patch manager 2.2 to a dozen of Blackberry 7270 handhelds from our BES using Software Configuration policy. Under Options/2007 DST Patch, the patch manager complained it could not find the patch, or couldn’t download the patch, and will retry at a later time. All test units complained one way or the other. Read the rest of this entry »
I was configuring two more Netgear MGR614v6 wireless routers earlier today. My laptop was plugged in one of its four LAN ports. The network connection to the Internet from the laptop went on and off as I changed the WAN and LAN settings on the wireless routers. Before I started the this wireless router configuration task, two RemoteDesktop connections were established to a remote Windows 2003 standard server, each using a different administrative account. The laptop was running up-to-date Windows XP sp2. Read the rest of this entry »
A developer alerted me that the jdk1.5.0_10 on a test server didn’t work. A simple ‘java -version’ gave the following error:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object
Poking around a little under /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_10, I found that rt.jar was missing! This version of JDK is an upgrade to accommodate the 2007 DST changes. Our current version 1.5.0_05 is just one revision older than the up-to-date release (1.5.0_06) . I had problems installing it as a RPM on that particular server and ended up using rpm2cpio to get it in manually. The RPM was from SUN’s own download site.
As I noted earlier in the live journal for this blog, I noticed a new version of wordpress.org server software was released two days ago. It took me by surprise (again) since I didn’t receive any email notice. I signed up for release notice last time when I stumbled upon the then latest 2.0.7 bug-fix release. This time, I couldn’t locate the release note to determine what bugs get fixed and what security fix is in. Read the rest of this entry »
I thought tzdata RPM package alone should prepare RHEL/RHL/CentOS/Fedora Core linux systems for the coming 2007 DST changes. Well, it was not entirely true. It turns out many applications use a file called ‘/etc/localtime’, which is not part of tzdata, but of glibc RPM package.
