From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Feb 6 23:04:07 2005 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Sun Feb 6 23:04:13 2005 Subject: [tech] manbo (aka the big mofo E6000 in the clubroom) Message-ID: manbo is installed with Solaris 9 everything but OEM on a 9gig partition. It currently mounts /home and is a nis slave, so you can log in. Currently the rest of the disks aredo not have a filesystem on them, but the plan I had was to have 3 RAID 5 arrays of 4 disks each, using 12 18GB disks to give a total of 162GB for /space. The plan is to have manbo take over all of meito's fnctions, including meito's /space, and being a nis slave to morwong, and decommission meito so Bernard can get his motherboard back. As for putting it in the machine room, this will require relocating the contents of the southmost rack, and possibly some downtime for mussel. I'm thinking the cleanup weekend (19/20 Feb) is the latest we should do this. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From davyd at madeley.id.au Sun Feb 6 23:15:20 2005 From: davyd at madeley.id.au (Davyd Madeley) Date: Sun Feb 6 23:16:08 2005 Subject: [tech] manbo (aka the big mofo E6000 in the clubroom) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1107702920.20687.23.camel@pingu.madeley.id.au> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:04 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: > As for putting it in the machine room, this will require relocating the > contents of the southmost rack, and possibly some downtime for > mussel. I'm thinking the cleanup weekend (19/20 Feb) is the latest we > should do this. Let's make it so! If we decommission meito and mermaid (offload its tasks onto the more capable mussel), that leaves only mooneye in the short rack. Mooneye could probably be moved to the northern rack (and at some point we should look at upgrading to something built this millennium). We could then run colos in the short rack or on the desk (we don't "really" have that much colo kit at the moment from memory). --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ PGP Fingerprint 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA From trent at ucc.asn.au Sun Feb 6 23:36:02 2005 From: trent at ucc.asn.au (Trent Lloyd) Date: Sun Feb 6 23:36:14 2005 Subject: [tech] manbo (aka the big mofo E6000 in the clubroom) In-Reply-To: <1107702920.20687.23.camel@pingu.madeley.id.au> References: <1107702920.20687.23.camel@pingu.madeley.id.au> Message-ID: <1107704163.21380.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:15 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:04 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: > > > As for putting it in the machine room, this will require relocating the > > contents of the southmost rack, and possibly some downtime for > > mussel. I'm thinking the cleanup weekend (19/20 Feb) is the latest we > > should do this. > > Let's make it so! I agree. > If we decommission meito and mermaid (offload its tasks onto the more > capable mussel), that leaves only mooneye in the short rack. Mooneye > could probably be moved to the northern rack (and at some point we > should look at upgrading to something built this millennium). We could Sounds like a plan. > then run colos in the short rack or on the desk (we don't "really" have > that much colo kit at the moment from memory). Is that after your plans to relocate my machine out the window? :) Trent > > --d > From alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Feb 10 22:51:24 2005 From: alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Alastair Irvine) Date: Thu Feb 10 22:51:28 2005 Subject: [tech] mail on mussel Message-ID: <20050210145124.GA15757@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi, all. Can somebody please change mussel:/etc/mailname so that it contains: ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (this filename exists as a string in the mutt binary). A while ago someone mentioned that e-mailing from mussel was not a good idea. Any further info? -- ... "The daughter of Elvis married Michael Jackson. I think that's all that needs to be said about the 20th century." _____________________________________________________________________ | | | -=*Alastair Irvine*=- | | C-monkey/wanderer/board&RPGer/net-nut alastair@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au | |_____________________________________________________________________| From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Feb 11 08:31:38 2005 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Fri Feb 11 08:31:46 2005 Subject: [tech] mail on mussel In-Reply-To: <20050210145124.GA15757@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20050210145124.GA15757@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Alastair Irvine wrote: > A while ago someone mentioned that e-mailing from mussel was not a good > idea. Any further info? Wherg. I hope not :-( I haven't had any trouble with it, although most of my mail is to mailing lists. -o David Adam zanchey@ From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Feb 15 21:17:27 2005 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue Feb 15 21:17:36 2005 Subject: [tech] WAIX Routing ETA Message-ID: Hi all, Can anyone explain (wheel?/UCS?) what the deal with WAIX access from UCC is at the moment? I heard a rumour that it was a PARnet problem. Any idea if/when it will be back? Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From grahame at angrygoats.net Tue Feb 15 23:58:57 2005 From: grahame at angrygoats.net (Grahame Bowland) Date: Tue Feb 15 23:59:12 2005 Subject: [tech] WAIX Routing ETA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42121C41.2020505@angrygoats.net> David Adam wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone explain (wheel?/UCS?) what the deal with WAIX access from UCC > is at the moment? I heard a rumour that it was a PARnet problem. Any idea > if/when it will be back? Hi David It'll be back when it's back. AARNET changed things so they had more resiliency in their network, and they didn't include the 203.24.97.0/24 network in their config. I've started tagging the route so that AARNET can advertise it to WAIX only without having to know the actual prefix. When they have time, AARNET will finish the work to get things going. I don't want to bug them further about this, as they're pretty much doing it because they're nice, not because they have to. From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Feb 16 09:04:12 2005 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Feb 16 09:04:25 2005 Subject: [tech] manbo installation into machine room, thursday Message-ID: I picked up another aircon for the machine room (atacama), in preparation for putting manbo into the machine room. However, the shelving is blocking its installation into the window (where it fits with milimetres to spare). So, we're going to attempt to remove the offending shelving this Thursday afternoon, insert atacama, and then relocate manbo into the machine room. Could someone please bring a jigsaw or something similar to help remove the shelves? -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Feb 16 18:19:28 2005 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Feb 16 18:19:32 2005 Subject: [tech] manbo installation into machine room, thursday In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, James Andrewartha wrote: > I picked up another aircon for the machine room (atacama), in preparation > for putting manbo into the machine room. However, the shelving is blocking > its installation into the window (where it fits with milimetres to > spare). So, we're going to attempt to remove the offending shelving this > Thursday afternoon, insert atacama, and then relocate manbo into the > machine room. Could someone please bring a jigsaw or something similar to > help remove the shelves? Mark found UCC's jigsaw, so we removed part of the shelf and have installed the aircon. However, we still need help in moving manbo tomorrow afternoon. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From elixxir at ucc.asn.au Wed Feb 16 22:09:59 2005 From: elixxir at ucc.asn.au (Paul Marinceu) Date: Wed Feb 16 22:10:38 2005 Subject: [tech] Donating bits to replace mooneye Message-ID: <42135437.2070307@ucc.asn.au> Hey, After a recent talk with trs80, I've decided to donate the following (hopefully working bits): MSI K7T Pro 2-A mobo (Via KT133 chipset) Duron 850Mhz CPU & fan 128Mb PC133 SDRAM The last known status of the system is that it would not boot. I don't have the resources/interest to try and fix/debug the problem hence I'm giving it away. I *think* it may be bad RAM, but can't be sure. Anyway, I'd love it if it works and can replace mooneye. I'll bring it in this weekend and someone can have a look if they care. Later, -- Paul Marinceu http://elixxir.ucc.asn.au From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Feb 17 11:55:34 2005 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Thu Feb 17 11:55:47 2005 Subject: [tech] WAIX Routing ETA In-Reply-To: <42121C41.2020505@angrygoats.net> References: <42121C41.2020505@angrygoats.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Grahame Bowland wrote: > > I don't want to bug them further about this, as they're pretty much > doing it because they're nice, not because they have to. > Cool. Thanks for the update. David Adam, desperate to test his FTP code zanchey@ From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Feb 20 14:28:58 2005 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Tue Feb 22 21:27:04 2005 Subject: [tech] morwong's psu went again Message-ID: There was a power blip at UWA just before 9am this morning. Some machines rebooted, manbo stayed up, but morwong's PSU died. I swapped in the last spare from the prioris, and everything seems to be running ok. Mooneye only had morwong as a ypserver in yp.conf, so it deferred mail rather than bouncing. So only about 10 emails were bounced from when yp came back to when I stopped postfix and mounted /home and /services. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Feb 22 16:31:36 2005 From: zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Alwyn Lloyd) Date: Tue Feb 22 21:52:47 2005 Subject: [tech] cobbler Message-ID: Hi all, cobbler has what i suspect is some bad mem address. Basicly, you boot it up and start using it, then programs will randomly crash out after a bit of use. Happens in both windows and linux. Prob should run memtest86 on it. I'll do that if i can find a disk for it. Cheers, Alwyn From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Feb 22 21:30:47 2005 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Tue Feb 22 22:02:05 2005 Subject: [tech] mailman Message-ID: mailman seems to have stopped while I stopped postfix as morwong was coming back up. Thanks to some evil, I've restarted it without having root on mooneye (due to an sshd_config misconfiguration). -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 /