Weekly log #280 for week ending 04-Aug-2000

The licenses on the VMS systems expired at 17:00 PDT on Sunday, 7/30. Came in and fixed them. [And boy, did I feel stupid.]
Got the CIIM scripts working on the new web server. There were some issues with the location of Perl, and one typo in a "Content-type" header.
Mail from Jet after the M3.0 Hawthorne event was delayed due to a 'service limit exceeded' error on Bombay. After talking with Kate, fixed the eqalarm_local-list distribution list to eliminate bombay addresses for users who have their bombay mail forwarded elsewhere.
Mailed Charlene Fischer to register 130.118 addresses for shoki and jaguar.
Spring crashed at 19:55 on Tuesday. Took 35 minutes to reboot itself.
Carizo crashed. The power supply turned itself off again. Called Compaq parts. Got part number H7816-AA for a replacement power supply. Bob called to order it.
Moved Juniper to replace Phoenix so that Vince will have a machine to use when he is here.
Got rsync installed on Agent86, Bort, Ehzsouth, and Flint.
Installed new 15GB disk in Bort and set it up to use rsync to maintain mirror copies of the pasadena and trinet web sites.
Set up NFS mounting of the Agent86 web pages disk on Genie for Dave and the CIIM group.
Called Charlene in Menlo Park about registering anss.org for the anss web page.
The /oracle disk on Iron was full. This turned out to be caused by temporary files held by the oracle processes.
Put the new power supply in Carizo on Friday.

Weekly log #281 for week ending 11-Aug-2000

The htdig reindex of Pasadena bombed on Sunday morning. Re-ran it by hand.
Found out that Reston is doing a mailing list to distribute events from the NEIC list. Wrote to Peter Schweitzer to ask questions about how they are doing their mailing list server.
Helped Katrin with transferring a file from VMS to Unix. The file had Fortran carriage control. We converted it to carriage return by creating an empty dummy file and then appending the Fortran file to it. This converted the file attributes.
Set up rsync to mirror the Terra10 web pages on Bort.
RPAGE was not working on Wwolf. It was sending pages to the now non-existent pager daemon on Bigone. Changed the PAGE.COM procedure to email the messages to the Airtouch gateway address.
Added a 'search commentary' form on the earthquake commentary pages on the Trinet web site.
Hacked the rundig script to fix the problem where it was not replacing the weakcmpr db file. Also hacked it to add write access to the weakcmpr db file.
Cleaned up the 'felt' mailing list to remove bombay addresses. Several people had bombay addresses forwarded to other places. Changed their addresses to reflect this.
Made an 'eqpager' mailing list in case we ever start sending belt pages as email messages.
Called Charlene to have her fix the IP address for shoki and move it to the 67 subnet.

Htdig found some dead links on the Trinet web site. Commented out the hrefs for them so that they will not show up as links.
Helped Bob testing some computer hardware.
Set up Agent86 to boot automatically after a power failure.
Mail on Bigone was hung on Wednesday. There were two bad messages in the queue that caused the queue to stop. Put the messages on hold and restarted the queue.
Found a typo in Nick's address on jet in /home/operator/operators/duty.list.
Helped Tom Heaton with pager message access.
Helped Mike Watkins with some router issues on Goldfish.
Helped Diane at UNR with VMS problems. Their online system would not start and was giving an 'ACP file create' error. This was due to their disk running out of file headers. Had her delete some files to free up some headers.
Got a Lotus Notes demo client for testing.
Made an account for Doug on Agent86.

Got back an 18GB disk from nStor. This is the replacement for RMA# 22639. The disk came in on August 21. Also got a new 18GB disk which was ordered as a spare.
Participated in a conference call with Lisa Wald and the Reston and Golden Web Team to discuss plans for moving the main earthquake hazards program web site. They want to move it from Denver to either Menlo Park or Reston in order to avoid the bandwidth bottleneck imposed by the DOInet connection to the Federal Center in Denver.
Installed Netscape 4.75 on the Trinet machines. This is a revised version with a patch for the Brown Orifice bug that was recently discovered.
Got four new UltraSparc CPU modules for Jet and Spring. Installed two of them in Spring and they would not pass self-test. According to the vendor, they didn't pass because the cache is different, but it will work if I move one of the existing CPUs up one board and put the two new ones together on the last board. As long as the CPUs on a single board match each other, it should work.
Set up mhonarc to archive the mail sent out on our earthquake mailing lists. The archives are being stored on the Agent86, which is the new web server.
Reinstalled the java plugin for Netscape on Iron.
Adjusted the configuration for Analog to exclude gif and jpg files from the daily file reports that are generated on the Squid servers.
Lucy's computer had a problem with its cache file system. This hung the system completely. Power cycle fixed it.

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Got the new web server running. After testing, this will become the new server for the Pasadena office, replacing the Sun Netra that we currently share with the Menlo Park web site. This change is in preparation for the national rollout of the Community Internet Intensity Map project, which is going to be served from the Pasadena office web server. It was necessary to have a faster machine to process the data from the on-line questionnaires.
Installed a new power supply Carizo. This is the primary CUSP data acquisition system. There was a bad connection inside the old power supply, and this caused the computer to fail several times over the last six months. A refurbished power supply was ordered from Compaq and installed on August 4th.
Added a search function to the earthquake commentary pages on the Trinet web site. This allows web site visitors to search all of the earthquake commentary back to when the Trinet web site went on-line in March, 1998.