[3139] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: installer - thanks + 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Oct 26 22:32:00 2000
Message-Id: <200010270231.WAA05685@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
To: Kenneth C Barr <kbarr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:11:55 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.21L.0010262107140.907-100000@kbarr.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:31:56 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> 2) I have autoupdate set to true, but my machine is still
> 8.4.0. Is there anything I need to do, short of manually doing
> update_ws, to get the update to kick in? (I'm registered w/ IS, so that's
> not the problem)
It should schedule an update for a few hours in the future, then try
to take it at that time, if nobody's logged in, then. If you leave the
machine up and idle overnight, it'll try to update.
(This mechanism exists so that a cluster of machines don't all try to
take an update at once, loading the network. There's no obvious and
appropriate way to circumvent this.)
You should check if there's a /var/athena/update.log on your machine,
which might indicate updates have been attempted and have failed.
(Alternately, look at the contents of /etc/athena/version, to see if it
has tried to update repeatedly.)
(Yes, this should all be better documented... I'm working on it.)
-Camilla
