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Re: Who's still using sun.dialup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Apr 26 00:00:35 2010
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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I spent several hours today fighting with the ancient cruft that
is the sipb locker's rrn. Based on superficial testing that Geoff
and I have done (noting that neither of us really uses that client),
we think that as of tonight's volume release, it will begin to work
on Debathena. I'll follow up with the user who complained about
it offline and make sure it works for him.
Mitch
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>
