[6560] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Dec 10 15:19:04 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
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I decided I would try to run a barnowl screen on there (on my standard
justification that I don't test things I don't force myself to use), and
got:
ringworld:~ geofft$ screen
Directory '/var/run/screen' must have mode 777.
I know that this issue is dealt with in the debathena-linerva initscript;
you probably want to be running some variant of that package, because it
has a fair number of hacks for similar issues.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> Greetings, release-team members.
>
> As promised, I have created a prototype Linux dialup to which the members of
> this mailing list can telnet/ssh/rsh. Feel free to connect to:
>
> ringworld.mit.edu
>
> as yourself and kick some tires around. A few notes:
>
> 1. It's a prototype. I can't emphasize this point enough. As such, it has
> less memory and vCPUs than we plan for production use. We're planning now
> some dedicated VMWare hypervisors on which to run the dialups, but it may be
> a teeny bit of time before these come into fruition.
>
> 2. Because it's a prototype, I have restricted access to this box in two
> ways. One, you can only connect to it via a 18.x.x.x address. When we go to
> make these available to the general user community, it will cease to have
> this restriction. The other is that I have set PAM to disallow people that
> aren't receiving this mail from logging in. I took the people from the
> release-team mailing list and coded it into the access.conf file since
> dynamic lists weren't working so hot. This restriction will also vanish when
> we replace the current test.dialup box (cvp).
>
> I welcome constructive comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -MM
>
