[tech] Martello and Mussel upgraded to Squeeze, Mooneye put into new hardware

[Matt Didcoe]

And of course, a big thank you to David, who leaves for a five-month stay in the lovely town of Albany in a little over 110 hours and who probably should have been moving house or dealing with his own affairs!

[MRD]

On 08/01/2011, at 12:13 AM, David Adam wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As those of you tuned to your designated propaganda machine will have 
> noticed, we did some pretty serious upgrades today.
> 
> * Martello and Mussel had their operating systems and software packages 
>  upgraded to the new prerelease Debian version (squeeze), including new 
>  kernels (hence the reboots required) and OpenLDAP versions.
> 
> * Mooneye was put into the hardware of old Murjan, a Dell PowerEdge 2850 
>  with dual dual-core 3.6 GHz Xeons and 2 GB of RAM. Four disks have been 
>  set up in a RAID 6 and one kept as a hot spare.
> 
> The upgrade to squeeze was slight bumpy and there may still be some things 
> that don't work; if you discover something, please let your nearest Wheel 
> member know or email wheel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au.
> 
> We also managed to switch out the KVM for a different one and drink some 
> beer.
> 
> Thanks to [DJA] and [MRD] for their help today, and to [MSH] and [TRS] for 
> sorting some of the remaining issues out.
> 
> David Adam
> UCC Wheel Member
> zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au