[42454] in Hotline Meeting
Re: [Fwd: New Printer for Athena at WHOI]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cunningham)
Tue Mar 17 11:03:04 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:02:29 -0500
From: Eric Cunningham <ecunningham@whoi.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: op@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Hi Jonathan. I'm back from vacation. I guess I should consider dealing
with upgrading quahog so we can get the the new printer 'mussel' up and
running. How's your schedule looking for being available should I need
to call and is there a day when you're in a bit earlier than usual?
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Eric Cunningham
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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> Here are my notes on updating you machines (put together from several
> pieces of mail from when tautog was updated to 8.1), but they have not
> been tested.
>
> Make sure SYNCCONFIG=false in /etc/athena/rc.conf. If your machine is
> running 8.0, you will have to add this variable.
>
> make sure that /etc/inet/netmasks has the following line:
> 128.128 255.255.252.0
> (this is one of the things that is the most likely to get broken
> halfway through the update.)
>
> /etc/hosts needs to contain a line for the local machine. However,
> there is a lot of inconsistancy among your 4 machines right now.
> I believe the correct thing would be somethign like:
> 128.128.16.221 squeteague.whoi.edu squeteague
> but tautog has the following, and you haven't noticed any problems:
> 128.128.16.220 tautog.MIT.EDU tautog
> quahog and menhaden don't have a fully qualified domain name, or have it
> second. This is definately wrong.
>
> /etc/defaultrouter should have the router for the relevant subnet.
> It's possible, but not too likely that this will get corrupted by the
> update. Currently, this is:
> menhaden 128.128.108.1
> quahog 128.128.92.1
> squeteague 128.128.16.7
> tautog 128.128.16.7
>
> There is also a slight chance that there will be a problem with any of
> the following:
> /etc/hostname.le0 (should have name of machine)
> /etc/nodename (should have name of machine)
> /etc/athena/rc.conf (should have the host name and the address)
>
> Given all of this information, do you feel comfortable trying to
> update the quahog yourself (possibly at a time when I can arrange to
> be contactable by phone)? If so, you should confirm that both PUBLIC
> and AUTOUPDATE are set to false in /etc/athena/rc.conf, and let me
> know. I will then update the hesiod information for the machine, and
> you can do the update anything after that change has taken effect (it
> takes overnight). Once we get quahog updated to 8.1, we can
> coordinate updating the rest of the machines. If you don't feel
> comfortable trying this, let me know, and someone (probably me) will
> schedule a trip down there to help you out. (The obivious advantage
> of you doing this yourself is that it's likely to happen sooner.)
