- Wrote a script to take the automatically-generated earthquake email
and turn it into a concise pager-style message for users who want event
notifications on cell phones or pagers.
- Put an old Hayes modem on Agent86 so that it can do paging via dialup.
Modified the pager web pages to inform the users how their page is being
sent.
- Set up a new mail server to be based in Menlo Park. Made some notes
about how to set this up at
http://bort.gps.caltech.edu/stan/mail-archive/msg00038.html
- Got information about the clock boards that we would have to have to
be able to put faster CPUs in Jet and Spring.
- USGS access to the Internet was turned off at noon on Thursday.
- Assisted Karen with upgrading ssh on the Data Center machines.
- Spent part of Saturday certifying that our machines are free of all
Indian Trust Fund data.
- Internet connectivity restored at 10:14 PST on Sunday.
- Got mapsurfer working on Fang. The problem turned out to be just a
matter of adding 'AddHandler cgi-script .cgi' to the Apache config.
- Started writing a new implementation of EDIS to run under Unix. It is
written in C, and uses a socket connection to the LAT1 terminal server
to connect to the EDIS serial line.
- Got quotes and information about memory upgrades for Jet and Spring.
- Restricted access to telnet on Iron after a new buffer overflow in
/usr/bin/login was announced.
- Got a patch from Sun for the /usr/bin/login vulnerability. Installed
it on Friday.
- Set up a new version of the listsync script on the eqinfo mail servers.
The script can now detect if a server is down and make up a list of
pending transactions for it to perform when it comes back up. This will
simplify keeping the mailing lists synchronized over multiple servers.
- Set up the 'eqpager4' mailing list to redistribute 'quake-large'
messages in a pager-friendly format.
- Shipped Eqinfo2 to Menlo Park.
- Got the CIIM file transfer script working from Fang to Genie.
- Set the alarm level for disk space on the Oracle disks on K2 and Makalu
to 90%.
- The Eqinfo2 mail server arrived broken in Menlo Park on Monday. It
appeared to have been dropped.
- Made 'edis-all' and 'edis-quake' mailing lists for the EDIS program
to use for distributing messages.
- Installed a new QDDS on Agent86, Fang, Bort, and Foreshock.
- Made Fang a live web server on Tuesday.
- Set up rollover in the duty operator and duty seismologist schedule
display scripts on the Trinet internal web page. Now, if the current date
is in December, it will automatically display part of next year's schedule.
http://rift.gps.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/dutyseismo.pl
http://rift.gps.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/dutyop.pl
- Changed Pluton from 65.201 to 65.127.
- Pluton crashed at 00:31 PST on Friday. File system damage prevented it
from rebooting. Had to manually fsck the disks.
- Spam attack on Saturday morning. Porn spam was sent out with a bogus
'trinet.org' return address. The spam was sent through hijacked mail
servers all over the world, but not through any actual trinet system.
- Holidays on Monday and Tuesday.
- OS upgrade on Agent86 to FreeBSD 4.4. Also upgraded Apache and mod_perl.
- ITS moved the Catalyst back to 525 in preparation for the move.
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- Set up a second server for the Pasadena office web site. This will
provide additional load capacity and redundancy for the site.
- Worked with Caltech ITS to get the network in 525 S. Wilson working
again in preparation for people moving back in to the building.