Fixes
I made some final tests and changes on yesterday's script and committed it to svn. I double checked the PAR application code to make sure we get the user info from the context where we had in last year's version. I solved the immediate problem with the palm phonebook download by recreating the product instances, but still have to solve the larger problem of getting the info in the correct format.
Posted on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap par
More scripting
I worked some more on ldap to palm product. I also wrote a script to encipher the mysql dump file, for our tests.
Posted on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap par
Palm Phonebook
I've been working on the Palm phonebook download problem, trying to understand what it wants in terms of file format. It looks like tab separated values with a title line containing all possible fields.
Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap
A New Page
I finished off the alias2ldap script and mail Otto and Matt about it. Otto said we'll talk in September. I wrote a script to do substitutions over a file tree, mostly by pulling together code from other scripts. It's called revise and lives in Work/perl.
Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap perl
Bugs and Calls
There were several problems reported with pars and I responded. Steve wanted the status of the par process and I gave him the results of a database query. Greg reported several par problems. The first was an inconsistency between freezing updates to the par table and to the underlings table. I documented it but did not make any changes yet. The second was that the ampersand in the ou string screwed up the xhtml, so we now convert them to the word and.
I reworked the alias2ldap code so that changes are now done as a delete followed by an add. This roves the -m flag, changes are not made unless deletes and adds are both allowed. The new code doesn't work yet.
Posted on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap par
Almost Done
Spent the day working on alias2ldap. I've got everything working except updates to existing records. I documented the script and gave a rationale for its operation.
Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap
Ldapping
Spent the day debugging alias2ldap
Posted on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 Tags: ldap
More LDAP Code
I convinced myself that my alias2ldap code was correctly calculating the updates to be made, so I added the code to make the changes in ldap. I'm testing the new code. I also fixed a bug in addSgnature in the PAR code.
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 Tags: par
More Testing
I tested and fixed bugs in the email alias project in the morning and I fixed bugs in the PAR application in the afternoon.
Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 Tags: par ldap
Coding and Testing
I spent most the day testing my new ldap lias code, making sure it works right. All was right except the code that compares two existing records, to compute the changes. I revised that code. Greg reported some problems from testing the par. I investigated them and fixed them. One was an old problem, where I had never checked in the fix.
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 Tags: par ldap