From mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 6 22:52:22 2008 From: mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mark Tearle) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:52:22 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] Snack Machine and cvs.ucc.asn.au Message-ID: Hi Folks 1/ Fixed the snack machine today ... dropped out the crack smoking Bernard serial code in exchange for python-serial aka pyserial Seems to have fixed it. 2/ In the process, updated cvs.ucc.asn.au with a later version of ViewVC that understands modern CVS commit logs Mark -- Mark Tearle - mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fish! From alastair.swanson at uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 7 13:29:21 2008 From: alastair.swanson at uwa.edu.au (Alastair Swanson) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:29:21 +0900 Subject: [tech] Snack Machine References: Message-ID: Thats great Mark now we can get drinks the lazy way again :P ________________________________ From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au on behalf of tech-request at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sent: Mon 7/01/2008 12:00 To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: tech Digest, Vol 191, Issue 1 Send tech mailing list submissions to tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/tech or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to tech-request at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au You can reach the person managing the list at tech-owner at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of tech digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Snack Machine and cvs.ucc.asn.au (Mark Tearle) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:52:22 +0900 (WST) From: Mark Tearle Subject: [tech] Snack Machine and cvs.ucc.asn.au To: tech at ucc.asn.au Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hi Folks 1/ Fixed the snack machine today ... dropped out the crack smoking Bernard serial code in exchange for python-serial aka pyserial Seems to have fixed it. 2/ In the process, updated cvs.ucc.asn.au with a later version of ViewVC that understands modern CVS commit logs Mark -- Mark Tearle - mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fish! ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tech mailing list tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/tech End of tech Digest, Vol 191, Issue 1 ************************************ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4882 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080107/9a2b8fa7/attachment.bin From admin at Viagra.com Mon Jan 14 23:41:05 2008 From: admin at Viagra.com (admin at Viagra.com) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:41:05 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] [SPAM] SALE 73% OFF on Pfizer Message-ID: <20080114084105.32064.qmail@marks> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080114/0f5b49b5/attachment.htm From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jan 17 19:27:26 2008 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:27:26 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline Message-ID: Probably due to extreme weather conditions, Manbo has been having severe operating difficulty, so it has been shut down for an unknown period of time. It spent most of this afternoon trying to reboot but failing due to a ZFS misconfiguration (Adrian, I had to mark one of your shares as unmountable), and once this problem the network interface refused to initialise. Additionally, the disk arrays were reporting multiple problems. As UCC is currently locked, we turned Manbo off remotely in order to avoid further damage. This has taken /services offline, which means (among other things) no main UCC website, wiki or forums. User web space is still working. Windows machine logins may not work, and /away accesses (including Windows home directories) will certainly not. We believe this is due to high temperatures in the machine room caused by the failure of one of the airconditioners (which has been doing funny things for a while). It's still under warranty but getting hold of the manufacturer is proving difficult. There are a couple of things we're doing to try and restore service: - the cables for our Fibre Channel disk array have arrived, so we're trying to move the files located on Manbo over to Musundo, the V480 which is hosting the FC arrays. Musundo runs much cooler (and faster). - if we can't get the aircon fixed in a reasonable time, we'll buy a new one (last time it took less than six hours from "we need a new aircon" to its installation). If you have any problems or questions please reply to the list or contact us directly on wheel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thanks, David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jan 17 23:13:00 2008 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:13:00 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Guys, Just shut manbo down to the bare minimum CPU and IO boards? Or won't that drop the heat generation by much? Adrian On Thu, Jan 17, 2008, David Adam wrote: > Probably due to extreme weather conditions, Manbo has been having severe > operating difficulty, so it has been shut down for an unknown period of > time. > > It spent most of this afternoon trying to reboot but failing due to a ZFS > misconfiguration (Adrian, I had to mark one of your shares as > unmountable), and once this problem the network interface refused to > initialise. Additionally, the disk arrays were reporting multiple > problems. > > As UCC is currently locked, we turned Manbo off remotely in order to avoid > further damage. > > This has taken /services offline, which means (among other things) no > main UCC website, wiki or forums. User web space is still working. Windows > machine logins may not work, and /away accesses (including Windows > home directories) will certainly not. > > We believe this is due to high temperatures in the machine room caused by > the failure of one of the airconditioners (which has been doing funny > things for a while). It's still under warranty but getting hold of the > manufacturer is proving difficult. > > There are a couple of things we're doing to try and restore service: > - the cables for our Fibre Channel disk array have arrived, so we're > trying to move the files located on Manbo over to Musundo, the V480 > which is hosting the FC arrays. Musundo runs much cooler (and faster). > - if we can't get the aircon fixed in a reasonable time, we'll buy a new > one (last time it took less than six hours from "we need a new aircon" > to its installation). > > If you have any problems or questions please reply to the list or contact > us directly on wheel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au > > Thanks, > > David Adam > UCC Wheel Member > zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From frenchie at frenchie.id.au Thu Jan 17 23:22:42 2008 From: frenchie at frenchie.id.au (James French) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:22:42 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> (Originally from Tech@, cross posted to committee@) While manbo is down, I've redirected the website to the latest incarnation of Sam Spencer's site which is functional, and has all of the content. Once (Manbo|Musundo) is serving services again we can formally decide to either deploy it properly or go back to the old site. In the mean time, it's something better than a 404. Frenchie -- James French 0x21st UCC President frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From davyd at madeley.id.au Fri Jan 18 07:28:19 2008 From: davyd at madeley.id.au (Davyd Madeley) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:28:19 +0900 Subject: [tech] [committee] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1200608899.5961.4.camel@frobisher> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:22 +0900, James French wrote: > Once (Manbo|Musundo) is serving services again we can formally decide > to either deploy it properly or go back to the old site. In the mean > time, it's something better than a 404. Instead we're getting error 500, that's 96 more awesome than 404! Maybe we should just have a static page saying we're experiencing some downtime and will be back shortly. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA From maset at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jan 18 08:30:02 2008 From: maset at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Anil Sharma ) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:30:02 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On the news bit, can we just say we had an unexpected aircon problem, rather than stating we did not expect hot weather during the middle of January? On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, James French wrote: > (Originally from Tech@, cross posted to committee@) > > While manbo is down, I've redirected the website to the latest > incarnation of Sam Spencer's site which is functional, and has all of > the content. > > Once (Manbo|Musundo) is serving services again we can formally decide > to either deploy it properly or go back to the old site. In the mean > time, it's something better than a 404. > > Frenchie > > -- > James French > 0x21st UCC President > frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au > Maset the Grandiose. ------------------------------------------------- Without suffering, how can one appreciate happiness? And how would we mark the depths of our sorrow, without the light of hope? From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jan 18 13:03:22 2008 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:03:22 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] [committee] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <1200608899.5961.4.camel@frobisher> References: <20080117141300.GA25942@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b010801170622keb4b5b2t7b8bdb88a626101e@mail.gmail.com> <1200608899.5961.4.camel@frobisher> Message-ID: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:22 +0900, James French wrote: > > > Once (Manbo|Musundo) is serving services again we can formally decide > > to either deploy it properly or go back to the old site. In the mean > > time, it's something better than a 404. > > Instead we're getting error 500, that's 96 more awesome than 404! This is because something ate all of martello's RAM, knocking /home out as well. I've also undone the change so the website is !DOCTYPE grahame again. > Maybe we should just have a static page saying we're experiencing some > downtime and will be back shortly. I bounced martello and brought mussel and manbo back up, things are mostly working now, except morwong's got a stale /home mount, which only affects me, and one of manbo's disks is dead, fortunately it wasn't being used. Oh, and mudhead's died again. -- # 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 jacques at chester.id.au Fri Jan 18 12:08:12 2008 From: jacques at chester.id.au (Jacques Chester) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:08:12 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4790181C.1010200@chester.id.au> David Adam wrote: > Probably due to extreme weather conditions, Manbo has been having severe > operating difficulty, so it has been shut down for an unknown period of > time. > troppo seems to have been similarly afflicted with an overheating problem. Though I am still but a newb in ucc terms, has the time come for me to suggest a more robust airconditioning setup? Cheers, JC. From davyd at madeley.id.au Fri Jan 18 13:36:01 2008 From: davyd at madeley.id.au (Davyd Madeley) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:36:01 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <4790181C.1010200@chester.id.au> References: <4790181C.1010200@chester.id.au> Message-ID: <1200630962.5961.19.camel@frobisher> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:08 +0900, Jacques Chester wrote: > David Adam wrote: > > Probably due to extreme weather conditions, Manbo has been having severe > > operating difficulty, so it has been shut down for an unknown period of > > time. > > > > troppo seems to have been similarly afflicted with an overheating > problem. Though I am still but a newb in ucc terms, has the time > come for me to suggest a more robust airconditioning setup? The problem is that one unit is offline so the aircon is currently down to half capacity. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA From coxymla at gmail.com Fri Jan 18 13:40:26 2008 From: coxymla at gmail.com (James Cox) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:40:26 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo downtime, /services offline In-Reply-To: <1200630962.5961.19.camel@frobisher> References: <4790181C.1010200@chester.id.au> <1200630962.5961.19.camel@frobisher> Message-ID: If we feel like moving to a more robust AC setup (by which I mean physically as well), I have a honking great window mount unit which would probably keep the entire machine room a toasty 20 degrees. On Jan 18, 2008 1:36 PM, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:08 +0900, Jacques Chester wrote: > > David Adam wrote: > > > Probably due to extreme weather conditions, Manbo has been having > severe > > > operating difficulty, so it has been shut down for an unknown period > of > > > time. > > > > > > > troppo seems to have been similarly afflicted with an overheating > > problem. Though I am still but a newb in ucc terms, has the time > > come for me to suggest a more robust airconditioning setup? > > The problem is that one unit is offline so the aircon is currently down > to half capacity. > > --d > > -- > Davyd Madeley > > http://www.davyd.id.au/ > 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080118/b99d7a07/attachment-0001.htm From luke.williams at uwa.edu.au Wed Jan 23 10:57:22 2008 From: luke.williams at uwa.edu.au (Luke Williams) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:57:22 +0900 Subject: [tech] FW: [Tech-contacts] PLANNED OUTAGE: AARNet Internet Router, Sat 26 Jan, 0700 Message-ID: <43CAE24504F9C646B9437FF6F62D7D2E7445B7@admin-vm17.admin.uwa.edu.au> FYI > -----Original Message----- > From: tech-contacts-bounces at maillists.uwa.edu.au > [mailto:tech-contacts-bounces at maillists.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf > Of ITS Notices > Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:35 > To: Subnet-Administrators List; Tech-Contacts List > Subject: [Tech-contacts] PLANNED OUTAGE: AARNet Internet > Router, Sat 26 Jan,0700 > > > PLANNED OUTAGE: AARNet Internet Router > > DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Upgrade of Operating software on the > UWA - AARNet Internet Router > > DATE: Sat 26th Jan 2008 > > TIME: 7.00am to 7.30am > > AREAS AFFECTED: All Internet traffic on the AARNet link > > IMPACTS: All internet traffic will be affected for 5 minutes > during the 30 minute window to allow AARNet Network team to > restart AARNet router located at UWA. > > ITS Network Team will be on standby during the upgrade to > monitor the restart to confirm the internet connection has > been restored. > > The OTRS Ticket for this change is 2007120743000971 > > ITS thanks you for taking time to review the important > information provided herein. > > Kind regards, > > > ITS Client Services > Phone: (08) 6488 2822 > Email: ITS-help at uwa.edu.au > Web: http://www.its.uwa.edu.au/ > > From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Jan 23 23:42:56 2008 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:42:56 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo/morwong downtime, heat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080123144256.GC27368@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:40:26PM +0900, James Cox wrote: > If we feel like moving to a more robust AC setup (by which I mean physically > as well), I have a honking great window mount unit which would probably keep > the entire machine room a toasty 20 degrees. Depending on how honking wide it is, that could be handy. We've had two small window box units, gibson and atacama, running side by side. Occasionally one will ice up. During the heat of summer we definitely need both to run everything. As Davyd mentioned, gibson died last year, so due to recent weather some of the machines were shut down. gibson and atacama are 45cm wide each, with a 6cm foam-filled gap spare in the window. gibson (bought 20051217) is in its 5 year warranty, a GAF Control technician is coming out, it might be fixed or regassed cheaply. (thanks, [DAA]! ) Failing that, there's yours, or we can get a cheap replacement any day of the week. manbo (the Sun E6000), backups and /services has been up for a few days, though tomorrow'll be a hot one. ([TRS] unplugged a few of its CPU boards, which saves 110W each) morwong (the AlphaServer) was shut down for a bit (use a decent shutdown grace period, [AHC]!), it's on at this very minute. manbo's jobs might get moved to musundo (the SunFire V480) soon. musundo's smaller and slower (though faster at things we might actually want to do). Machines are doomed to a tenuous and transitory existence in the UCC. Sometimes we get a neat box to play with! ...but things break, they take space and power and nothing ever seems to get used quite as much as we'd like. It's nice when they can perform an important job for a while, but thankfully, nothing's indispensible. In memoriam - Astrum piscis piscis. Nick. ----- Forwarded message from Adrian Chadd ----- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:25:49 +0900 From: Adrian Chadd To: wheel at ucc.asn.au Subject: [wheel] power related hackery * turned off morwong. Sorry james, but its pumping out too much heat! * turned off the DLT drive; it needs a clean and thus isn't going to be doing very much; * turned off the VT220; no powersaving mode! * turned off the mac monitor - again, probably no powersaving mode! What else can be turned off temporarily? Adrian ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig at rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal From coxymla at gmail.com Thu Jan 24 08:28:53 2008 From: coxymla at gmail.com (James Cox) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:28:53 +0900 Subject: [tech] Manbo/morwong downtime, heat In-Reply-To: <20080123144256.GC27368@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <20080123144256.GC27368@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: Mine is (very) roughly 600 wide by 400 high by 850ish long. That might mean that it would require additional support perpendicular to the wall, which shouldn't be too hard if I remember the CH architecture properly. [RME]~Coxy On Jan 23, 2008 11:42 PM, Nick Bannon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:40:26PM +0900, James Cox wrote: > > If we feel like moving to a more robust AC setup (by which I mean > physically > > as well), I have a honking great window mount unit which would probably > keep > > the entire machine room a toasty 20 degrees. > > Depending on how honking wide it is, that could be handy. We've had > two small window box units, gibson and atacama, running side by side. > Occasionally one will ice up. During the heat of summer we definitely > need both to run everything. As Davyd mentioned, gibson died last year, > so due to recent weather some of the machines were shut down. > > gibson and atacama are 45cm wide each, with a 6cm foam-filled gap spare > in the window. gibson (bought 20051217) is in its 5 year warranty, > a GAF Control technician is coming out, it might be fixed or regassed > cheaply. (thanks, [DAA]! ) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080124/8eb30848/attachment.htm From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 28 22:11:58 2008 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:11:58 +0900 (WST) Subject: [tech] Pine -> Alpine Message-ID: Alpine 1.00 has been installed on Mussel and Martello, and /usr/bin/pine made a symlink to Alpine. If there are any pressing reasons for Pine to be reinstalled please let me know - however, bear in mind that the code has not been maintained for some time and has a terrible security record. David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au