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Re: Linerva transition meeting today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Tue Jan 28 15:59:39 2014
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:59:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: linerva@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
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I'm fine with the banner plan, with either Linerva or an Ops VM serving
the error. I assume Geoff is as well. I think achernya and Anders are the
main other people who have been caring about this -- are you okay with
that plan?
~~Alex
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> I've confirmed with Garry that he's fine with this plan. He did
> suggest that we move the linerva/linux names to an ops run VM that
> served the re-direct messages. I would expect ops to run that VM at
> least through the end of the term. That would leave you with more
> flexibility about recycling the current VM and hypervisor.
>
> Because of the tight schedule of transitioning on Thrusday or Friday,
> (and the difference in the work required for the different plans) I'd
> like to know if there are any problems with this approach by 6pm
> today, if at all possible.
>
> Jonathon
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Alex Dehnert wrote:
>
>> We met with Jonathon today to discuss how we would carry out the
>> linerva->athena.dialup transition. Tentative plan, assuming that the rest
>> of Ops and Linerva maintainers are okay with it, is to replace the Linerva
>> sshds with something that rejects your login with a message about
>> athena.dialup, and to run a high-port sshd for recovering dead sessions
>> (aka plan 2 in the notes).
>>
>> I've attached limited notes from the meeting.
>>
>> ~~Alex
>
