Month: February 1997

Thu Feb 20 09:17:58 PST 1997 — At 11am today, we’ll be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Wed Feb 19 19:44:23 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’ve restored from tape, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. We most humbly apologize for this mistake, and please know that we are working on both technical and policy solutions to reduce chances of data loss. -Sonic

Wed Feb 19 16:55:37 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’re currently putting it back online from a backup, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. I expect to have the restore finished within an hour or so. Sorry! -Dane

Mon Feb 17 22:09:16 PST 1997 — New web traffic stats available. Users can now monitor their web traffic via a graphical interface. Users can monitor megabytes transfered per day and files (hits) per day. See: www.sonic.net/bw-quota/

Sat Feb 15 22:02:40 PST 1997 — Our /home partition is getting very close to full, and we need users who are over the quota to clean things up. Even if you’re not near the quota, if you’ve got things stored in your home space that you no longer need, or which you can download to your home PC, please do so. You can type ‘diskuse’ to find out your current usage. Thanks for your help cleaning the disk. -Dane

Sat Feb 15 13:58:55 PST 1997 — New news box up. Our new news box (‘Marine’, Ultra’s replacement) is currently up and talking to the new 24Gb disk array (six 4 Mb Barracudas). Our plans are to get the filesystems built, and then run it for a week ‘mirroring’ our news server. That way, we can hammer the disk array some more, as well as spool up a goodly amount of news. Once that is completed, we’ll swap IP addresses between Ultra-Marine, and reverse our mirror feed, so that we can back out of this change if necessary. Once we’re comfortable with that, we’ll move the 9Gb disk to the new machine. This should be a fairly seamless upgrade, assuming the RAID subsystem does its job. (That’s why we’re testing, testing, testing the thing — we want it to work! 🙂 -Scott

Thu Feb 13 16:02:08 PST 1997 — New Internet software for Windows is currently available for testing. I’d really appreciate if a diverse group of customers could give the new tools a try and let me know what you think. Please see news:sonic.general for details. -Dane

Mon Feb 10 10:25:13 PST 1997 — The Web server’s hard disk filled up this morning around 9:30AM. Eli has been busy working on clearing space on the drive, and should have things back up and running within 30 minutes. Check out sonic.general for more info and followup. -Dustin

Mon Feb 10 14:10:28 PST 1997 — The Web server’s hard disk filled up this morning around 9:30AM. Eli and Dustin have cleared things up, as Scott and I are at the North American Network Operator’s Group meeting in SF. A pre-RAID backup plus new verbose logging combined to cause the trouble, and all’s well now. -Dane

Sat Feb 8 13:27:44 PST 1997 — We’ve backed out of the 2.0.29 upgrade, as it appears to have problems with ‘ptys’ (pseudo terminals, like those used in telnet and rlogin).