- Fixed a problem with the file permissions on the ftp daemon running on
Dixie. This is to allow for anonymous ftp uploads of SCIGN GPS data.
- Backed up Wacke in preparation for testing it as a possible replacement
for Granite. This is because Granite is proving to be very underpowered in
its role of handling the input from the serial stations.
- Talked to Will Prescott in Menlo Park and had him take our office web
server out of the round-robin DNS scheme. This was originally intended to
provide a fail-over capability if our server failed, but the combination of
requiring four separate DNS name lookups and the net lag between here and
Menlo Park made it prohibitively slow.
- Built and installed version 3.3 of the qpage paging software.
- Added two new modems to the LRS modem pool. This was a test to see if
the slow connection problems were because of the old US Robotics modems.
- Tested the new modems. It appears that they slow connections are not
caused by the old modems. The new modems are every bit as slow.
- Met with the people from Lucent about the coming phone system upgrade.
- Installed two more lines on the LRS modem pool. Rewired the whole set to
put them lines and ports in a rational numeric order.
- Some of the accounts on Iron had their home directory paths set
incorrectly. Fixed this.
- Got the replacement for the disk that failed in the Jet SX RAID.
- Hooked up the Jet SX RAID controller port to one of the serial ports on
Jet so that we can access the controller console directly from the system.
- Installed the Calendar Manager patch from Sun on all systems. This is to
fix another recently-discovered security hole. The patch numbers were:
Solaris 2.7: 107022-03
Solaris 2.6: 105566-07
- Ojai crashed on Saturday night at about 23:15. The crash dump appears to
be similar to past crashes that Compaq service attributed to a bad memory
SIMM.
- Discovered that they Menlo Park mirrors of our office web page are
serving the restriced internal pages to the world. Talked to Lisa and Will
Prescott about this and decided that they should just exclude that
directory from the mirroring process.
- Set up NFS mounting of the new oracle8i installation on Iron.
- Put the Gobi RAID into the rack.
- Renamed Wacke to Granite so that it could take over the processing of the
serial station input.
- Took one of the ethernet cards out of the old Granite for use in Magma so
that Magma can have a connection to the 65 subnet.
- Did a backup of the Wwolf system disk in preparation for upgrading it to
VMS 7.2.
- Mounted the new router in the rack in the S. Mudd penthouse.
- Set up loopback in the DSU in the penthouse for testing.
- Repartitioned the disk on Air to fix a problem with disk space allocation.
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- Had the round-robin DNS turned off for the office web server, which
should speed it up a bit.
- Replaced the Granite Ultra-1 hardware with an Ultra-5 system that is more
able to handle the load of processing the serial stations.