Publishing vsftp though ISA – 550 permission denied

Posted on November 24th, 2009 in General, Technology, Work by Jim Prince

A simple one that caught me out recently. I’d setup an FTP site using vsftpd which was published through ISA 2006. By default FTP Filtering on an ISA rule is setup as read only. So if you try to upload a file you’ll get an error 550 permission denied.

Read Only

The fix is simply to right click on the rule in ISA and select Configure FTP. Then un-tick Read Only. Click OK and Apply.


Dell OpenManage on CentOS 5.4

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 in General, Technology, Work by Jim Prince

I'd been having a problem configuring Dell OpenManage with CentOS 5.4 so I've written it up here so that;

  1. I don't forget it.
  2. It may help someone else with the same problem.

Basically when starting the daemons you'd get the following error;

/etc/init.d/dsm_om_shrsvc start
Starting DSM SA Shared Services: /bin/bash: line 1: 3119 Aborted /etc/delloma.d/oma/bin/dsm_om_shrsvc32d [FAILED]

I'd already made sure that all pre-requisites had been met and that the software installed correctly. A colleague even posted the problem on the Dell Support Forums. I got fed up waiting for a response so I installed strace to see what was going on behind the scenes. 

Looking at the system calls I could see lots of errors of the type;

open('/usr/lib/locale/en_UK.UTF-8/LC_IDENTIFICATION';, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

So I ran locale which produced

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

The fix was to add;

export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

to /etc/profile and then run . /etc/profile.

Now the daemons start correctly and the locale command runs without errors.

 

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on November 5th, 2009 in General, Personal, Technology by Jim Prince

Had the following email from Orange…

Thank you for registering your interest in the iPhone.

Orange isn’t just bringing you the iPhone. Together with the UK’s
biggest 3G network, covering more people than any other, we’re
bringing you a winning combination.

You will be eligible for an upgrade on 25/12/2009, so when the time
comes, you can enjoy one of the best handsets on the market.

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