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Server Move

I am in the process of moving proteinspill.com to another server so if things act funny, that’s why. Give it a couple of days.

Shocking, bizarre, riveting, bleah

I love it when a news organization tells me how to feel about a story. “In a shocking twist to an already bizarre and riveting mystery…” I don’t even want to open the story link any more. I wasn’t riveted, but I was a little curious.

During my commute, I often listen to CNN. In the morning it is Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien (that’s a lot of Brien!). They react to stories but not like in the evening with Lou Dobbs, who always has to slip his commentary in; and Wolf Blitzer, who likes to add unnecessary words (Shocking!) and ad copy into his broadcast. Maybe Wolf was told to be more emotional since he’s so monotone.

Mac OS X Tiger, NIS login and NFS automounter

I can’t seem to find a solution to my problem on the forums or even here at Integrating Mac OS X in an NIS network so I’m going to do a little search engine trolling here. Perhaps someone else is having a similar problem.

I have a Gentoo Linux machine running NIS and NFS. I set up the mounts.byname like it says in the referenced instructions. Everything seems to work as it should; it passes all the tests. For example:

lady:~ whimmel$ ypwhich
slappy
lady:~ whimmel$ ypmatch -k whimbot passwd
whimbot whimbot:(password):1003:100::/home/whimbot:/bin/bash

I can su to one of the imported userids just fine and it mounts my home directory across the network as expected. The shell works, the files are there with the correct permissions, etc. However, when I try to login from the OS X login box, it just shakes at me. Really annoying. I even have this set properly:

With that set, Directory Access will use the NIS domain to authenticate, right? I can verify that with lookupd in debug mode:

lady:~ whimmel$ lookupd -d
lookupd version 369.5 (root 2006.02.10 04:16:23 UTC)
Enter command name, “help”, or “quit” to exit
> userWithName: whimbot
Dictionary: “DS: user whimbot”
_lookup_agent: DSAgent
_lookup_validation: 1155043714
gid: 100
home: /home/whimbot
name: whimbot
passwd: (password)
realname:
shell: /bin/bash
uid: 1003
+ Category: user
+ Time to live: 43200
+ Age: 0 (expires in 43200 seconds)
+ Negative: No
+ Cache hits: 0
+ Retain count: 3

Even here it is using the correct stuff. What have I done wrong? I’ve been over the “Integrating…” instructions several times. Ugh. I just want a single-signon across all the machines on the network.

Meebo Me, new apartment

As you can see, you can now chat with me right off the site whenever I’m online. I tend to only log onto Meebo at work though so I might not respond right away.

I spent my first night in the new apartment last night. It’s strange to go from rural Davenport to fairly busy downtown Celebration. I’m sure Tekey and I will adjust. I don’t have any furniture at all right now; Tracy and I slept on an air mattress I’ll be moving in the rest soon enough.