[6578] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Fri Dec 18 09:55:31 2009
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:55:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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This turned out to be "what I call bug, you call feature" problem with
cloning in VMWare and Ubuntu. Long story short, calling the udev script
to force-reload devices and rebooting seemed to have kicked the fuse file
systems into working again.
I'll add that to my "how to clone" instructions.
Not sure yet why the screen fix isn't firing on startup. I'm leaving town
now, but I'll figure it out when I get back on Sunday and start to load
all the rest of the packages.
-MM
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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