[357] in Project_DB
Re: Arachne tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter B. Kelley)
Wed Jul 1 17:35:47 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 17:35:01 -0400
To: Rachel Sage <SAGE@mitvma.mit.edu>, project-db@MIT.EDU
From: "Peter B. Kelley" <kelley@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "James M. Mullett" <mmullett@mitvma.mit.edu>, o&s-facmgt@MIT.EDU
The automatic database startup was turned off after the last disk crash.
The application went into hyper-mode and prevented anyone from accessing the
system, nor doing anything even from the root console. It made sense to
keep the database from starting up automatically.
We may want to consider this same strategy for other systems.
--Pete
At 03:47 PM 7/1/98 EDT, Rachel Sage wrote:
>
>The tape drive on arachne has been fixed and replaced. The system is
>up and running. Everything looks hunkey dorey.
>
>We had to start the database by hand, though. Is there a reason why
>you don't have the database coming up automatically? Can we rename the
>script to have it start automatically?
>
>Thanks
>Rachel
>
