[tech] Power failure aftermath

[Bernard Blackham]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:16:56PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> > > - Dispense (won't run from Mussel, and is kinda screwy on Morwong). Coke
> > > members, expect to do a LOT of refunding: at this stage, there is only
> > > stuff left in slots 5 and 6, but the dispense client isn't reflecting this
> > > on Morwong.
> >
> > Should be fixed. Involves killing dispense on mermaid, running minicom,
> > typing some random commands, and restarting dispense.
> 
> Are these documented anywhere? Just for eventualities like this?

The random commands? Not really. They're truly random. It takes a
difference sequence of random commands each time to make it happy
again.

> > Should also be fixed. It no longer goes via the DEC, now plugs into the
> > back of mermaid (perhaps via a patch lead to the patch panel IIRC).

Ermmm. Read what I mean, not what I say :P ... s/mermaid/mussel/

> Trying to decide whether I've acheived more good than bad today.
> Possibly.

If not wheel, who would break stuff? ;)

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>