Weekly log #184 for week ending 02-Oct-1998

Added more memory for Air. This is the machine that will take over the shakemap computations currently being done on Genie.
Fixed a font definition problem on Silver that caused text in Netscape to not display.
Attended the TriNet unveiling party.
Installed Sun security patch 106448-01 on all systems.
Reconfigured Terra10 to be the intranet web server.
Installed the new version of the Lexmark `Markvision' printer utility on Ehzsouth.
One of the SIMMs in the 1024MB of new memory in Spring was logging ECC parity errors, so we requested a replacement from Vangard. After replacing it, the whole memory set disappeared from the system self-test.

Weekly log #185 for week ending 09-Oct-1998

Re-seated all the memory SIMMs in Spring. This brought all the memory on line.
Chuck was at SVD, and we spent some time on the phone, trying to get it to talk to the SLIP router.
Set up a Majordomo mailing list for sending out the automated earthquake alarm messages.
Tried to set up queues for the new Lexmark printer in the yellow house. This did not work. After some research, it turned out that the version of Markvision that came with the printer was old. I got the latest version from the Lexmark web site and installed it. Then I was able to creates queues for the new printer.
Moved the RAID on Spring in preparation for the new Jukebox installation. After moving, one of the RAID controllers failed self-test. Called Andataco support. They gave instructions on reconfiguring the controller, which didn't help. Finally, they agreed to send out a field service person, who replaced the controller. After all of this, all the data on the RAID was lost.
Disabled the finger utility on all the TriNet development systems. Also set up automatic reporting of all login activity on these systems.
Meeting to discuss Y2K issues with CUSP and TriNet.

Iron crashed on Monday, and the /home disk partition was corrupted. A manual run of fsck was able to correct this.
Set up pointers from the VAXcluster to the new Lexmark printer queues.
Contacted Sun to resend quotes for a new disk for Iron and a replacement power supply fan for Spring. The original quotes had been lost somewhere in the Seismo Lab.

The office experienced a power failure on October 17th. Spent some time investigating this to determine how and why things failed the way they did.
Since the UPS systems on the ITS equipment in the yellow house seems to have not worked in the power failure, wrote to Larry Watanabe about this and requested that they test this equipment.
Put a new 9GB disk on Iron and split up the /home area to two disks. Also created a dedicated area for the Oracle database.
Attended a meeting with Andataco about the problems with the RAID the previous week.

Added a fifth modem line to the LRS dialup server.
Got a paging software package for Ehzsouth and put a modem on the machine so that we can have an independent paging capability in the office.
Got service information from Hewlett-Packard for the Laserjet printer in the tan house that is experiencing a lot of paper jams.

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