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Re: Linerva / athena.dialup transition

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 27 19:36:16 2014

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:36:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
cc: ops@MIT.EDU, linerva-root@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
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In order to simpliy the logistics of everyone knowing where and when to be, let's stick with the SIPB office at 11; and my apologies to people for whom that is less convenient.

 	Jonathon

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:

> That should work. I _think_ all the active Linerva maintainers work in 
> Kendall, so if swinging over here (somewhere in E17, say?) works for you, 
> that might be a little better timing-wise for us. But SIPB is also fine.
>
> -- 
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
>> 
>> Sorry for the delayed reply.  I'll swing by the SIPB office at 11am-ish
>> tomorrow.  Things I'd like to talk about include ssh server keys, and
>> notifying existing linerva users of the change.
>>
>> 	Jonathon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>> 
>


 	Jonathon

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