Weekly log #193 for week ending 04-Dec-1998

Configured one of the Cisco 2500 SLIP routers for installation at China Lake.
Set up the new configuration on Spring to allow backups over the network.
Talked to Will Prescott about fixing a problem with the Mailto: tags on the mirror of the Menlo Park web page. The problem occurred because of the round-robin DNS arrangment for load balancing. Half of the time, the machine name in the mail address resolved to the IP address of ehzsouth, which does not have a `webmaster' account on it. These messages would be marked undeliverable and bounced to postmaster. Advised Will that the best fix would be to have the Mailto: tags point to a machine with a static IP address.
Found another typo in the monthly update script on Flint.
Ran crack on the password files for the main Trinet development systems and for the web servers.
Reconfigured Cajon and Bbear to be Bigone satellites and rebooted the entire cluster. The reboot was necessary to clear an NFS problem, so the timing was fortunate. The cluster is now set up with a single boot node, which reduces the number of VMS licenses we need to pay for on a yearly basis.
Assisted several people with pre-AGU problems with printing transparancies and large posters.

Weekly log #194 for week ending 11-Dec-1998

Had jury duty Monday-Wednesday.
SMTP mail broke on Bigone, due to a bad message at the head of the mail queue. Removing the bad file fixed the problem and allowed the backlog to clear.

Set up several majordomo mailing lists for shake map groups in iron.
The SLIP router at China Lake was installed, but not working. Had to add an explicit route to its internal routing table to get it to work.
Added aliases for `webmaster' on both ehzsouth and flint. Both point to Lisa Wald.
Got qpage to work on ehzsouth. This gives us an independent stand-alone paging capability for emergency use.

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