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Re: Linerva / athena.dialup transition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Jan 26 14:57:48 2014
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:57:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: ops@MIT.EDU, linerva-root@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
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Hi Jonathon,
What time works for you this week to meet? It looks like at least a couple
of us can make Tuesday before noon -- do you have availability then?
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, and am out of the office for
> the next week, I'll try to prioritize it after that. The only other
> blocking issue that I know of is the need to come up witha solution that
> allows people who use the linerva hostname to get the ssh keys they
> expect, at the same time that people who use the foo.dialup.mit.edu
> hostnames get the ssh keys they expect. I have some thoughts on this,
> but haven't had time to pursue them (additional ideas are welcome).
> Also on my list for after I get back. I would love to get linerva
> converted during IAP, but I'm not sure how things will go.
>
> --
>
> Jonathon
>
>
> Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathon,
>>
>> I think we're basically ready to move over the Linerva name to
>> athena.dialup, and I think we'd like to do so this IAP if that's still
>> possible.
>>
>> Did you get to chance to look at the last comment on
>> https://athena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1176? I think that's basically
>> the last outstanding issue, and I think we'd be satisfied with some
>> sort of approach that results in people being emailed when their
>> dialup is about to reboot. Email notifications on all reboots would
>> also resolve #1180.
>>
>> I think it'd probably be good to meet sommetime this week briefly to
>> discuss that and work out the transition plan. A couple of us are
>> available to meet this Thursday or Friday morning before 11:45 AM --
>> is there a time that works for you?
>>
>> I'd like to plan on doing the transition approximately a week from now
>> if that schedule is also good with ops.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Geoffrey Thomas
>> geofft@mit.edu
>
