[6561] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu Dec 10 15:29:17 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:29:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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Done.
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
>
