[42851] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Gee, thanks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Apr 14 22:38:26 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias" <muchomas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:21:54 EDT."
<3533FDA2.2603638F@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:38:17 EDT
Please don't drop the cc line when replying to mail. It allows us to
track the mail, and deal if someone goes on vacation, or something.
> Well, I tried it. But unfortunately, there seems to be some problem.
> It couldn't look up my machine, ElValle in some "hesinfo" data base.
> So, now, I can't even log in as an athena user. :^( (Root still
> works.)
Sure enough, it was missing hesiod information. This may actually
explain why it never updated. It appears that the hesinfo was
accidently dropped in mid-1997 when the machine was moved to building
12 (it was left attached to the old IP address). I've put it back.
If you still can't log in in the morning, then you should log in as
root and reboot the machine. With a little luck, it will even have
automatically updated to 8.1 when you get in in the morning. (You can
check by looking at the last line of /etc/athena/version.)
Sorry about the confusion.
Jonathon
