- Continued reading the installation and upgrade manual for the VMS version
6.1 upgrade in preparation for doing this on TEJON.
- Installed Motif on Tejon as part of the preparation for VMS 6.1. It
turned out that we did not have a license for Motif in the CSLG license
pack that we get from Caltech. I talked to CCO and to Jim Mori and we
arranged to order this from DEC.
- Talked to Sue Perry about ordering a replacement cooling fan for the
system disk on Tejon.
- Did some basic system maintenance, cleaning up disks to free up space.
- Deleted the disk files for a number of user accounts that have been
inactive for over a year. This freed up some space on the user disk.
- Got a price quote for a memory upgrade for Tejon.
- Got the replacement cooling fan for the Tejon system disk and installed
it.
- There was a minor problem on Wednesday when a batch job ran away and
filled up on of the data disks with seismogram files fetched from the
jukebox.
- Rebuilt Mosaic and XV on Carizo to work under the CUSP directory.
- Noticed that LANDER was logging ethernet errors again.
- Attended the weekly Timers meeting.
- The ethernet errors on LANDER got worse over the weekend, so Bob and I
shut down LANDER, MECCA, and CAJON on Monday to do some recabling to move
LANDER to a different Ethernet tap. This seems to have fixed the problem.
- The reboot on CAJON caused a problem for the Multinet installation that
it uses to send data to Terraten. Fixing this took most of the afternoon,
and required another reboot.
- Got a price quote for a new 4GB disk to add to the cluster.
- Figured out how to print text and graphics from Mosaic and XV.
- Doug got a license for Motif, so I reinstalled it on Tejon.
- I did the VMS 6.1 upgrade, which ended up taking most of two days to
accomplish, since there was a problem with the scsi disk driver in the new
version of VMS. After some assistance from Carl Lydick from across the
street I was able to finish this.
- Attended the weekly Timers meeting.
- Finished up the VMS 6.1 upgrade on Tejon. There were two software
patches and an update to Multinet that had to be installed to get the
system fully configured.
- After finishing the VMS upgrade, we were able to form a VMScluster with
the Tejon VAXstation and the Alpha in Bob's office. This is an important
milestone.
- Bob got some information about TCP wrappers software, which is used for
unix system security management. The files were in a unix format, which
made decoding them difficult, but we were able to access the information.
- Went with Bob to do an Earthquake Fair in South Gate on Tuesday.
- Contacted R-squared for some additional information about the disks that
they gave us a quote on last week.
- I did the VMS 6.1 upgrade, which ended up taking most of two days to
accomplish, along with many more of preparation before actually doing it.
- Figured out how to print text and graphics from the Mosaic and XV
graphics packages.
- Fixed the broken cooling fan on the disk on Tejon. This was relatively
easy to do, except that finding out the part number of the fan was a
two-month odyssey.
- Moved LANDER to another ethernet tap to fix the network errors it was
logging.