[52728] in Hotline Meeting
Fwd: electra moved, not varan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Pope)
Wed Nov 8 18:35:11 2000
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 18:35:06 -0500
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From: Kyle Pope <ndpope@MIT.EDU>
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Varan should have been the printer that moved. That was the plan
as far as I knew. If that has changed, Brian Campbell and I need to redirect
all of the machines in the NT cluister that were specifically set up to go
to electra because we knew varan was going to move.
What's the real story?
Kyle
>To: hotline@MIT.EDU, hardserv@MIT.EDU
>cc: ops@MIT.EDU
>cc: lgdean@MIT.EDU
>Subject: electra moved, not varan
>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:02:31 -0500
>From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
>
>
>A user reported that electra was missing from building 37. When I
>couldn't find anything in casetracker indicating it should be gone, I
>phoned Lou.
>
>Apparently varan should have gotten moved, and indeed varan's queue was
>down. I up'd varan's queue, and down's electra's, this time, with a
>message, since varan is pinging and electra isn't.
>
>Please remember to send mail when you do things like this. I almost
>filed a police report...
>
>Note that the 37 cluster gets a lot of use from their printers, and
>that users remember which printer they want by name, so you'll need to
>both choose a new name for the electra's hardware and to get hesreq to
>set it up. If we're going to be down a printer in 37 for more than a
>few days, perhaps it would be nice to have hesreq alias the queues
>together, so both names work on the same printer (this is easy, you
>just have to ask).
>
>There's a bunch of monitoring setup to do, if bldg. 33 really has a
>cluster. Please let ops know about this.
>
>-Camilla
>
