[2649] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Please strongly consider backing out the zephyr servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Mar 10 08:36:06 2001
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To: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
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zacheiss@MIT.EDU, azary@MIT.EDU, jhawk@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU,
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 21:24:13 EST."
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 08:35:59 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> For those of you who absolutely need the latest winzephyr this
>> weekend, I wanted to make it avaliable to you. Ian Garcia and Qing
>> Dong repaired the checksum and made fixes to all the UI problems of
>> which we are aware. Thanks to them for such quick work, which was
>> done in the time I expected to get an estimate for it!
Wonderful! For the record, I looked into tracking down the Winzephyr
clients that had zephyr subscriptions on our servers yesterday, and
managed to find 12 machines that identified themselves as Windows hosts
in their zstat output that had subscriptions.
I'm not at all convinced this number reflects the number of users of
Winzephyr out there; it's possible that Winzephyr users are less likely
to have subscriptions for extended periods of time, as Athena users
with private workstations are.
I believe my next step is to build a zephyrd that will log when it
receives a subscription notice with a mismatched checksum; this should
allow us to more accurately track users of affected clients, so we can
notify them that a new version is available. I hope to have this work
completed sometime in the next couple of days.
Garry
