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Re: Agenda for 11/19 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Nov 18 16:01:49 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Additional items:
- Realplayer (alexp)
- Release schedule (jdreed): Should we revisit the idea of only targeting LTS releases for the clusters?
On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Please send additional items to me.
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> - Broken machines: There are a number of perpetually broken machines (macgregor-5) which have repeatedly failed re-installation. We need a good solution for these. In at least one case, the machine was re-installed by me personally and worked just fine in N42, but upon deployment to macgregor, it magically turned back into debathena-workstation.
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> - Related to the above, "machtype -L | grep "debathena-cluster" is not an acceptable substitute for "PUBLIC=true". While there's some argument that private workstation install logs shouldn't be publicly available, w20-575-1 should, for example, always display all logs publicly, even if Debathena installation failed somehow or it got downgraded to workstation. I can think of several ways to accomplish this: Query for hesiod cluster=cluster to determine whether to view the information, or have the -cluster installation create a flag file (/etc/athena/public) in the sysroot at install time, and use that file to determine whether a machine is "public" or not. That way, debugging info will be available even for pseudo-failed installs.
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> -Jon
