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Pictures of #SysAdminDay Dinner 2017 at @Abe_Erb

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 4th August 2017

The last Friday in July is System Administrator Appreciation Day, and SysAdmins from Kitchener-Waterloo went to the Abe Erb Restaurant and Brewery for dinner.

Abe Erb Brewing Company

Abe Erb Brewing Company

The Whole Gang (almost)

The Whole Gang (almost)

Infinite Beer

Infinite Beer

Having a laugh

Having a laugh

Beer Valves

Beer Valves

Jean and Laurel

Jean and Laurel

Beer Console

Beer Console

Beer Admin

Beer Admin

More SysAdmins

More SysAdmins

Beer Vat

Beer Vat

Empties

Empties

Ooh, The Shiny!

Ooh, The Shiny!

Something is funny

Something is funny

Acidulated Malt

Acidulated Malt

A beer thing

A beer thing

Tech Talk

Tech Talk

Wild Goose

Wild Goose

Such shiny things!

Such shiny things!

Having dinner

Having dinner

In The Brewery

In The Brewery

Twilight

Twilight

SysAdminDay

SysAdminDay

There are more pictures in the SysAdminDay gallery.

Pictures taken at the System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner at the Abe Erb Restaurant and Brewery on Friday, 28 July 2017.

Pictures by Laurel L. Russwurm, used under a CC-BYCC BY 4.0 license.

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SysAdminDay Dinner pictures

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 14th August 2012

They say on the Internet Pictures, or it didn’t happen. So I just want to give you my assurances that the System Administrator’s Appreciation Day Dinner did actually happen!

27 July 2012, Egg Roll King Restaurant

People at the SysAdminDay Dinner System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner, 27 July 2012 at the Egg Roll King Restaurant. Clockwise from left: Willem Jonkman, Bob Jonkman, Becky Nguyen, Wael Khawaja, Hamin (sp?), Rodney Martin, Sergiane Nascimento, Tim Laurence, Henrique Nascimento, Gui Nascimento.

Willem and Bob Jonkman Willem and Bob

Bob Jonkman and Becky Nguyen at the SysAdminDay Dinner Bob and Becky

Weal and Hamin at SysAdminDay Dinner Wael and Hamin

Rodney Martin and Tim Laurence Rodney and Tim

Henrique and Gui Nascimento at the SysAdminDay Dinner Henrique and Gui

People gathered around the table for SysAdminDay Dinner System Administrators out for dinner. Clockwise from left: Sergiane Nascimento, Tim Laurence, Henrique Nascimento, Gui Nascimento, Laurel L. Russwurm, Willem Jonkman, Bob Jonkman, Becky Nguyen, Wael Khawaja.

Cheese Wontons and Sweet and Sour sauce Cheese Wontons for dessert!

Bob Jonkman at SysAdminDay Dinner with standup card

Bob Jonkman, System Administrator

Thanx for coming, everyone! We’ll do it again next year, 26 July 2013.

–Bob.

Visit the official System Administrator Appreciation Day web site.

All pictures courtesy of Laurel L. Russwurm and released under a CC BY-SACC-BY-SA license.

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Netware Debugger Monitor keystrokes

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 25th July 2012

Photo of a Novell Netware screen

Novell Netware 6.5

I dig out my notebook with the Netware Debugger Monitor instructions and keystrokes whenever I’m called in to work on a new (to me) Novell Netware server. Typically, there’s some kind of problem that needs more SysAdmin powers than those available through the ordinary Netware console screens, and the Netware Debugger Monitor is what gives a Netware System Administrator his superpowers. Sometimes it’s even possible to regain control of a hung server by using the Debugger Monitor. Thought I’d share:

Swap Screens
ALT+ESC
List of screens
CTRL+ESC
Alternate console
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+ESC
Shutdown prompt or the “Hung Console Menu”
CTRL+ALT+ESC
Entering the Netware Debugger Monitor
LSHIFT+RSHIFT+ALT+ESC

  • he — Help on expressions
  • hb — Help on breakpoints
  • h — Help
  • .h — Help on ‘dot’ commands
  • .a — Display abend reason
  • .c — Core Dump
  • .d — Display page entry map for current domain
  • .d address — Display page directory map for current domain
  • .l offset — Display linear address at page map offset
  • .lx — Display page offset and values
  • .m — Display names and addresses of NLMs
  • .p — Display process names and address
  • .p address — Display address as a process control block
  • .r — Display running process control block
  • .s — Display screen names and addresses
  • .s address — Display address as a screen structure
  • .sem — List all semaphores with waiting processes
  • .sem address — Display detailed semaphore inforation at address
  • .t — Toggle ‘Developer Option’ on or off
  • .v — Display version
  • b — Display breakpoints
  • bc number — Clear breakpoint number
  • bca — Clear all breakpoints
  • b= address — Set breakpoint at address
  • br= address — Set read or write breakpoint at address
  • bw= address — Set write breakpoint at address
  • c — Change memory
  • c entrypoint=hexdigits — Change bytes at entrypoint
  • d — Display memory at the current stack pointer
  • d address [length] — Display bytes at address for length bytes
  • dl [+offset] address [length] — Display linked list for length nodes with next node address at offset
  • f flag=value — Change flag to value. Valid flags: CF, AF, ZF, SF, IF, TF, PF, DF, or OF
  • g — Go (back to Operating System)
  • g breakaddress — Go, end at breakaddress
  • i[b|w|d] port — Input Byte, Word, or Doubleword from port
  • o[b|w|d] port=value — Output Byte, Word or Doubleword with value to port
  • n — Display symbol names and NLMs
  • n symbolname value — Create new symbolname with value
  • n-symbolname — Remove symbolname defined with n
  • p — Step through program code, skip calls
  • s or t — Step through program code, enter calls
  • q — Quit to DOS
  • r — Display registers and flags
  • u entrypoint [length] — See assembly code at entrypoint for length bytes
  • v — View screens
  • x — Exchange processor stack frames
  • z expression — Evaluate expression
  • ? entrypoint — Display reference to entrypoint
  • register= entrypoint — Set register to entrypoint. Example: EIP=CSleepUntilInterrupt will interrupt the last NLM called. Valid registers: EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, EBP, EIP, and EFL

See also the Novell Application Note The NetWare Internal Debugger. There’s more good information in the Novell TID 3193476: How to troubleshoot … an abended, unresponsive or crashed server.

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This article was inspired by Debian Administration: The magic sysreq options introduced.

Novell Class by mafketel used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license.

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System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 10th July 2012

Pictures are up!

300 new servers? By next Tuesday? Sure, no problem!

System Administrators install servers

System Administrator Appreciation Day falls on 27 July this year, a global celebration of System Administrators around the world. To see what System Administrators do, have a look at some of the systems they have to administer.

After the KWLUG meeting in July, Becky asked me where System Administrator Appreciation Day is being held. “It’s a global event”, I said, but Becky was hoping for something a bit more local. So we decided to have a System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner. What better way for System Administrators to celebrate than by treating ourselves to dinner?

If you can read this, thank a System Administrator

System Administrators maintain web sites

So, if you’re a System Administrator, married to one, or good friends come join us!

Friday, 27 July 2012 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
Egg Roll King Restaurant (map)
85 Courtland Avenue East 
Kitchener ON

Your computer ate all your files? I can fix that!

System Administrators make backups

If you’re planning on coming, let me know by e-mail or in the comments by Wednesday 25 July so that I can reserve enough seats and egg rolls for everyone.

–Bob & Becky

Event URL for SysAdminDay Dinner: https://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2012/07/10/system-administrator-appreciation-day-dinner/

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