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Who's still using sun.dialup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Apr 24 01:40:09 2010
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
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With sun.dialup going away this summer, it's worth figuring out who's
using it and why. I ran the following (sh) command to list the most
frequent users on the two sun.dialup servers, biohazard-cafe and
department-of-alchemy:
for i in /var/adm/wtmpx.*; do last -f "$i"; done | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | less
There is a fairly long tail, presumably mostly people testing Solaris
software. A couple of the names near the top I recognize as random SIPB or
related cruft who know how to contact us and whom I can't be convinced to
care too much kicking off sun.dialup. There are a couple of the rest that
stand out:
* One I recognize from trying to answer his OLC lament that his
MH/metamail/zmodem workflow from the '90s doesn't quite work any more.
([help.mit.edu #1139346], if you're overly curious.)
* One, according to Mitch, is using rnn from the SIPB locker, which needs
to be recompiled for Debathena (or we could in theory make a
debathena-rnn-config).
I don't recognize any of the others in terms of reasons they're still
using sun.dialup. Do we know if there are particular blockers to some of
these people switching to linux.dialup that we should start thinking about
addressing now?
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
