[42856] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Gee, thanks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias)
Wed Apr 15 07:50:19 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:50:04 -0400
From: "Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias" <muchomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Dear Jonathon,
Thanks, it seems to be updating now --
Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>
> 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
--
,
Tomas Arias, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://web.mit.edu/muchomas/www/home.html
