[6576] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Thu Dec 17 12:36:52 2009
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:36:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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I'm a bit backed up right now, but I promise this will all be done soon.
I'll need to take rw out for a bit since I didn't allocate enough space
for the sheer volume of stuff that these machines needed (I based the disk
sizing on various factors).
In the meantime, please do continue to send in these updates.
-MM
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
>
