Cleaning Up

I looked at all the old calls that had been assigned to me, made sure they were worked, and marked them as resolved. In the afternoon, I worked with Greg on configuring the remedy development machine. I also tried to set up a redirect in the /stsci folder, but this failed for reasons I have yet to determine.

Closure

Glen suggested that the fix I made to updates.pl was also needed in missing.pl. He was right, so I made the change and checked the other ldap utilities to make sure they didn't have the same problem. Then I created the new ldap screen for the DVAs and asked if it was appropriate. The line in STFolders.py that I missed and Greg called my attention to turned out to be the fix. I updated the file, tested it to make sure it worked, and submitted a test plan. There were some permission problems in installing the fix, so I notified Jim and Mike.

Step Forward

I thought I located the cause of the permission change problem and put in a fix. However, the fix didn't work, so I'll look further. Battra, the Zope site I'm working on, was down most of the afternoon, so I used the opportunity to finish updating the alternate phone numbers.

Debug Mode

I checked the source code again in an attempt to track doen the permissions editing problem. I hit a wall, so I added logging code to the source. Greg was working with the Zope server, so I held off rebooting and switched to working on another ldap problem: why it was reporting on new affiliate users. I fixed that problem, I hope, by modifying the ldap filter.

Zope Debugging

I debugged the GenericLog class in the morning and worked with Greg on Poskey error repair in the afternoon.

Permissions Bug Found

Greg and I found the source of Leigh's permission bug by stepping through the Zope code in the debugger. It turns out that if a folder does not have an index_html method in it, it will theow an error when you try to change permissions: some message about the View permission. Adding an index_html method works around the problem. The source code for this "feature" is in AccessControl/Role.py, but is obscure to me. Besides looking at that problem I answered a question about user modifiable ldap fields and work on some more alt phone numbers.

Odds and Ends

I got Susan the statistics for the nicmos handbook. Then I went back to the changing permission problem. I decided the only way to handle the problem was to log the changes, so I wrote a logger class. Then I finished up the day by fixing some more alternate phone numbers.

Zope Woes

In the morning I modified the inspectZODB method Greg found to make it a runnable script. I ran it on a bad oid and it found nothing. I'm thinking I don't understand how it works. Leigh reported a problem with changing permissions in Zope. I investigated and stared at the code, but wasn't able to find anything. Tomorrow I'll try the debugger. We also had the post-mortem meeting for the Zope upgrade and Susan asked me to find the number and location of the links to the ACS handbook.

Poskey Problems

I located and ran my poskey checking script. Unfortunately, it doesn't print enough information to locate the errors. I looked at the other Zope utilities and ran fsdiff, which doesn't report errors. I got a request for an ldap management screen that only contains the essential fields. I said it would be easy to create and forwarded a list of fields I thought were essential.

Zope and Badlinks

I copied the production database over to battra and restarted it in hopes of finding the poskey errors. That didn't work. Running the zope utilities showed that we have a number of hard errors in the database, we are trying to locate them. Our current strategy is to find the hard errors, fix them, and pray this resolves the problem. My last attempted fix of the badlinks script was to force the base url to the contents of the base tag where it exists. That seems to have resolved the problem, so I put the script backinto operation. Bobby Edwards reported a problem updating a user's record in ldap. My guess is that the problem happened because the user doesn't have a divisional administrator. I am still investigating. I need to find the tools I wrote for the poskey tiger team so we can do further investigation.