[42663] in Hotline Meeting
w20-575-36
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Wed Apr 1 18:29:01 1998
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:28:49 EST
From: Alex <xela@MIT.EDU>
At approx. 18:05 w20-575-36 started to beep, and wouldn't stop. I tried
to log in with the root password to reboot it, but it wouldn't take. I
checked with others that it hadn't changed since I last learned it (years
ago); in the meantime a user logged in and used it, still beeping away.
(Note that by beeping I mean emitting a continuous tone.) After the user
logged out and I had confirmed the cluster root password was what I thought,
I tried again, twice (and yes, I know to make sure caps lock isn't down).
I then powered the machine down and wrote this mail.
---Alex
Carl Alexander
------------- MIT (where Alex hangs out):
xela@mit.edu Course VI (sometime special student) SIPB (prospective)
Mitgaard ("honorary mold") MITSFS LSC (night worker)
http://www.mit.edu/~xela
------------- Work (where they call me 'Carl'):
carl@terc.edu System Administrator & User Services Manager, TERC
http://www.terc.edu
