[6575] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Dec 16 16:40:38 2009
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:40:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
cc: release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
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ringworld seems to be missing a couple of packages that linerva has. The
one that I've been noticing most is whois, but I also briefly noticed that
php (for use as a CLI scripting language) wasn't there. As I understand
it, the set of additional packages on linerva is listed in the
debathena-linerva-master package, whose source is in
/mit/debathena/packages/meta/linerva-master/debathena-linerva-master.equivs.
Recently-installed packages end up in the .equivs-add file via a shell
script, and this package is rebuilt once per Linerva reinstall or so.
I assume the Linerva team wants to maintain this package for Debian only,
so you may want to quickly go throughj that package at some point and
determine what you want on the dialups -- almost of it should be
reasonable, so long as it's in Ubuntu. Alternatively, we could figure out
if any of these packages should be added to -thirdparty. (I'm slightly
surprised php is missing, but I guess you can install packages on cluster
machines. whois turns out to be a dependency descendant of
ubuntu-desktop.)
Tangentially, I wonder if at some point the "ask your administrator" text
in the command-not-found hook should be hacked to mention olc@mit.edu.
--
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
>
