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Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Thu Dec 17 18:59:37 2009
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:59:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
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Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but it looks like the /mit and
/var/run/screen brokenness is back.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>
