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Re: Athena 9.0.24 for Linux tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E Cavin)
Fri Jan 25 16:46:37 2002
From: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:46:31 -0500
To: Athena Software Release Team <release-team@mit.edu>
CC: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
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Hi,
I have a follow-up question on updates. One of the users was logged in on
the console of his private Athena Linux system (with AUTOUPDATE=TRUE), and
had left an Emacs, Matlab, and a couple of SSH processes running. His
Kerberos tickets would have expired by the time the update happened, but
the other processes would still have been active.
I thought the update_ws script would wait for the system to be idle with no
users before updating the system. The user is concerned that this might
happen when he was running a long analysis job overnight.
Is there something in the idle status check code for the update process
that would let an update occur under these circumstances?
Thanks,
--Tom
> Garry Zacheiss writes:
> >> First question: was this update forced? (I think someone was on one
> >> of the systems when it updated.)
>
> No, there was nothing special about this patch release; machines
> would have taken it or not as they always have.
--
Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
WCCF Computer Operations Manager Email: tec@ai.mit.edu
