Month: May 2005

LAMP progress

Got PHP compiled and smoke tested last night. After the initial make/compile, the mod_php5.so library didn’t get compiled and my apache config file, httpd.conf, didn’t get updated with the LoadModule/AddModule entry. So I re-ran the make/compile and it worked. Weird. This weekend I’ll test the whole LAMP setup together.

Documentum admin tip: Stubborn jobs

From time-to-time, you may find that dm_jobs fail to run according to their schedule. Sometimes they can be “encouraged” to run by logging in to Documentum Administrator, opening the properties for the job, changing the next invocation date to a time shortly after the present, and saving the changes by clicking OK. Or you can simply open the object, select “Run After Update” and click OK.

When those attempts fail, and assuming you’ve already checked $DM_HOME/tomcat/logs/catalina.out and $DOCUMENTUM/dba/log/<docbase_name>.log for obvious error messages, your agent_exec process might be hung. If none of the jobs are running when they are supposed to this is another indicator of a hung agent_exec process.

One way to clear this problem is to simply kill the agent_exec process. On UNIX you would grep for the process (ps -ef|grep agent_exec ought to do the trick) and then kill it (kill <process id>). The content server will notice that the agent exec process is dead and will start a new one. This should free up those stuck jobs.

PureEdge and Open Text get together

PureEdge & Open Text Partner on E-Forms Solutions. PureEdge Solutions Inc. and Open Text Corporation announced they are partnering to deliver new solutions that will help large organizations streamline and improve complex processes that require electronic forms. Open Text will utilize the PureEdge 8x XML solution to extend e-forms capabilities in its Livelink ECM Solutions. A key target for the new solutions will be large government agencies, in addition to major corporations in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Livelink ECM Solutions unify information and complex processes, while allowing the people involved in those processes to collaborate in real time. By using PureEdge XML e-forms with Livelink, customers will be able to accelerate their e-forms implementation. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.pureedge.com [Gilbane]

List of public Vignette-based portals

From a CMPros listserv post by the Product Manager for Vignette Portal, a list of all publicly-available Vignette-based portals:

BankOne (http://www.bankone.com/)
Bechtel (
https://supplier.bechtel.com/)
Business Wire (
http://home.businesswire.com/)
Chase (
http://www.creditcardsatchase.com)
Ciminelli (
http://www.ciminelli.net/)
Citibank (
https://www.citibank.com.sg)
Caixa Galicia Portugal (
http://www.caixagalicia.pt/)
CEO Sydney (
http://www.ceo.syd.catholic.edu.au
City of Athens, Greece (http://www.cityofathens.gr
Claro Você (http://www.claro.com.br)
City University of New York (
http://portal.cuny.edu)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (
http://www.mass.gov)
EDS (
https://www.my-eds.com)
Expopage (
http://www.expopage.net)
Fiera Milano (
http://www.fieramilano.com)
FundsXpress (
http://fxfn.com/fx/)
Georgia Technology Authority (
http://www.georgia.gov)
GFI (
http://www.gfigroup.com)
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (
http://www.hgst.com)
IEEE (
http://www.ieee.org)
IHC.net (
https://www.ihc.net)
Lesedi FM (
http://www.lesedifm.co.za)
Merck Medicus (
http://www.merckmedicus.com)
Merck Services (
http://www.merckservices.com)
Merck Source (
http://www.mercksource.com)
Metro FM (
http://www.metrofm.co.za)
Mobitel end-customers site www.planet.si
Mobitel relaunched www.m-vrata.com
Nextel (
http://developer.nextel.com)
Nike (
https://www.nike.net)
NYC.gov (
http://www.nyc.gov)
Optus (
http://www.optus.com.au)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (
http://www.pwcglobal.com)
Qwest (
http://onetouch.qwest.com)
SABC 2 (
http://www.sabc2.co.za)
SABC Africa (
http://www.sabcafrica.co.za)
SABC Sport (
http://www.sabcsport.co.za)
SABC (
http://www.sabc.co.za
SaskTel (http://mysask.sympatico.ca)
Scotiabank (
http://www.scotiabank.com)
Telenor (
http://www.telenorsbc.com)
The Hartford (
https://www.hartfordadvisor.com)
TXU Energy (
http://www.txusmallbusiness.com)
University of Wisconsin – Madison (
http://my.wisc.edu)
Verizon (
http://netservices.verizon.net)
Vodafone (
http://www.vodafone.com.mt)
Volkswagen Autostadt Pressedatenbank (
http://press.autostadt.de)
World Trade Center Association (
http://www.wtca.org)
Wyeth Vaccins.be Preventie – Prévention (
http://www.vaccins.be)

Revisiting book: Setting Up Lamp

I’m re-visiting a book I got a while back called Setting Up Lamp: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together, by Eric Rosebrock, et al. The book serves as a nice punch list for getting everything installed and configured.

Anyway, per the recommendation in the book I was removing Apache from my Linux install so I could manually compile and install Apache 1.3 and I couldn’t get past the make step. It was complaining that it couldn’t find some statically linked shared objects. I tracked it down to a problem with libdl.so.2. I thought maybe my glibc or gcc install was bad or maybe I got over zealous in my removal of Apache and some of the packages that depend on it.

As it turned out, I had some broken links in my /usr/lib caused (I think) a while back when I had to relocate /usr/lib to a different mount point. As soon as I fixed the broken links the compile worked like a charm.