[1663] in Moira
Re: chfn update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Sep 5 14:20:49 2000
Message-Id: <200009051820.OAA01703@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:01:01 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:20:40 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Short story: They suck. We suck, too.
Longer story: The problem was that the automated student load
seems to have been returning empty strings for most of the address data
for students; I'm assuming some sort of end of term confusion.
Now, normally, we should catch this. Unfortunately, it turns
out that the stuff that student.sh and staff.sh spit out into the
critical.log won't get reported unless there's another critical error
the same day, because critical_check() in nightly.pl looks for lines
beginning with a date string. Oops.
I did a few things. First, I commented out the student load in
moira's crontab for now; I'll turn it back on once the Data Whorehouse
has its act together again. I also fixed student.sh and staff.sh to put
the output of `date` at the beginning of the errors they put in
critical.log, so we'll actually see them in the future.
The student should be able to run chfn and have it not revert
overnight now.
Garry
