- Moved station SAL from port 3 to port 4 on the CVWD SLIP server.
- Upgraded Thhpc to FreeBSD 4.0. Installed the full Linux emulation and
jdk 1.2. Installed Jiggle and ran it successfully.
- Attended Spring Internet World with Bob. Talked with various content
syndicators about providing earthquake information to them.
- Made an account for Alan Yong on Jet.
- Set up a link to Mapblast.com from the Simpson map pages on Terra10.
This will draw an approximately 8x15 mile map of the location of each event.
This is experimental right now, but may help to relate event locations to
local landmarks. The pages are at http://terra10.gps.caltech.edu/recenteqs
- The USGS Squid server rebooted itself at 00:58:35 on Monday morning.
- The UPS in S. Mudd failed at 17:26 on Wednesday. This caused all the
critical machines to crash. Jet was back up in 34 minutes. Spring took
about 90 minutes to reboot. Carizo had some problems after rebooting and
had to be manually rebooted a second time. The terminal server that
handles the packet radio to East L.A. was hung and had to be manually
rebooted before paging would work.
- Helped Nick with the MEM2DB procedure on Bigone.
- Assisted Jim Goltz with the Earthquake Fair at the L.A. Zoo.
- After the power failure, the Trinet Squid server failed to reboot. This
turned out to be a quirk of the fact that it is based on ATX PC hardware.
The ATX power supply waits for the motherboard to tell it to turn on before
it supplies power. The fix for the Trinet squid server turned out to be a
BIOS setting under Power Management that tells the board to turn on and
boot immediately without waiting for the front panel power switch to be
pressed.
- After the power problem with the Trinet Squid server, investigation
showed that the USGS Squid server had a similar problem. There is a jumper
JP11 on the motherboard that says it sets the board to boot automatically,
but this did not work. The fix turned out to involve shorting pins 14
("PS_ON") and 15 ("GND") on the ATX power supply together. This hack sets
the power supply to always be on, regardless of the board. This, combined
with the jumper, set the machine to boot automatically when power is
restored.
- Made up a plan for using Big Brother for monitoring the Trinet systems as
a replacement for the monitor.pl script. After a meeting on Wednesday,
installed the new version of Big Brother on all critical systems.
- Changed the IP address on Garnet to 131.215.66.25 after Bruce moved into
his new office in the USGS house.
- Took one of the 9GB disks off of Phoenix and put it on ehzsouth. Set it
up to mount as /webd2, which is the online backup of the web pages. Split
the live copy of the web pages over the two 4GB disks. One is the mirror
of the Menlo Park site, and the other is the Pasadena and SCIGN sites.
- Ehzsouth has been logging 'late collision' errors on hme0. This turned
out to be caused by duplex mismatch. The Sun interface was running
half-duplex, and the switch is full-duplex. Added to /etc/system:
set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1
- Put one of the 9GB disks from Phoenix on Amelia for Sue's use.
- Spoke with Patrick Small about a problem uncovered with his new paging
daemon. The daemon would return an error on any page that ended with a
period (".") character. He agreed that this was incorrect behavior and
fixed it.
- Mailed Paul Reasenberg about the Swish-e web indexing system.
- The new Big Brother installation was returned false purple indicators.
The Big Brother mailing list supplied a one-line fix for this problem.
- Set up a crontab entry to run swish every night to update the index of
the office web pages.
- Did the MTA Earthquake Fair at the Taj Mahal downtown on Thursday.
- Carizo, Ojai, and Wwolf all crashed at about 13:56 PDT on Friday. This
turned out to have been caused by a hacker poking the ftp service on all
the machine in our address space. Most machines ignored it, but the VMS
7.2/UCX 5.0 machines all crashed with an "Inconsistend I/O database"
machine check error. Disabled incoming ftp on these machines as a
precaution. Bob Logan at ITS blocked the intruder's IP address at the
border routers.
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- S. Mudd experienced a power failure after a problem with the UPS. All
critical systems crashed and needed attention.
- Set up Big Brother to monitor the Trinet online systems with the goal of
replacing monitor.pl.
- Got Jiggle to run under FreeBSD unix. This gives us another option when
the time comes to decide what kind of machines the Timers will use in the
future.