[6371] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Schedule for debathenifying dorm clusters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun Jun 21 09:22:14 2009
Cc: rccsuper@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu,
Kenneth Charles Arnold <kcarnold@mit.edu>, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Message-Id: <1402FD91-2832-4DC2-9AC1-F39CDF15A26A@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906210534210.28404@dr-wily.mit.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:21:55 -0400
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 0.00
I'm generally ok with this, but I would really prefer to wait a week
and see what reaction to W20 is like.
For MITES and Interphase, I'm including the following bullet points in
my presentation:
- We are in the middle of a transition while we upgrade Athena.
- Here's what Debathena looks like, and here's what Athena 9 looks like.
- Athena 9 should mostly work, but I'm training you on Debathena.
- Each dorm has their own printer policies and you should ask the dorm
desk if you can't print to a dorm printer. The cluster printers will
always work.
If you choose to upgrade the dorm clusters, please put some signs in
prominent places indicating which machines are Debathena, particularly
if you only upgrade half the cluster. http://debathena.mit.edu/
cluster has a link to PDF of a "quick reference card" that gets people
started -- feel free to print that out. Also, please send mail to
rccsuper letting us know which machines were upgraded.
I'd like to still have one or two Athena 9 machines in each dorm (the
Quickstations will suffice) for now.
As always, I will not be sad if you turn off kerberized printing for
the summer (or even permanently!), please also send mail to rccsuper
when you do so, so that we know what's going on.
If there's anything you want me to add to the MITES and Interphase
computing orientations, now would be a good time to tell me, since
I'll be speaking to MITES in about 3 hours, and Interphase next week.
-Jon
On Jun 21, 2009, at 5:53 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There was a bit of zephyr discussion on -c sipb last night about
> wanting to upgrade one of the Athena 9 dorm cluster machines in
> Ashdown to debathena-cluster. Do we have a schedule for upgrading
> the various dorm machines around campus? Is it generally okay to go
> ahead and reinstall them?
>
> Somewhat more urgently, should we be trying to upgrade Simmons' and
> Next's clusters (15 and 6 machines, respectively) so that RSI/MITES
> and Interphase students don't have a different version of Athena
> between their dorms and their usual cluster?
>
> This is perhaps made more complicated by both dorms having
> kerberized printers. Then again, I think nextexec decided last year
> that we would all but turn off our printer while Interphase was
> here...
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
