Month: December 1997

Sun Dec 28 21:25:06 PST 1997 — A summary of recent system events: * Saturday afternoon: Routing problem affecting single-user ISDN on PM7 (547-2000). Remote ISDN networks weren’t affected. * Sunday evening: History file problem on news server. Remote news reading was unavailable for approximately one hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sun Dec 28 21:17:22 PST 1997 — A summary of recent upgrades: * email mailboxes moved to Network Appliance file server (faster,safer) * attached 12GB RAID-5 disk array to shell server (will be /home) To save typing, we’ll start calling that disk array by its product name: ‘Reflex7’. Planned upgrades for the near-term: * Reflex7 to become /home partition on shell server. * Mail server upgrade: new hardware, new OS installation, new message transport and delivery system (Qmail, Procmail) We postponed this morning’s replication of /home to the Reflex7, as that would result in an uncomfortable amount of downtime. Instead, we will use a two-pass system, same as we did when moving web data to the Network Appliance. This will minimize downtime. -Scott

Sat Dec 27 08:28:16 PST 1997 — We will be attaching our 12GB RAID-5 disk array to our shell host, Bolt.sonic.net, sometime LATE THIS EVENING (please note change :). This will require a reboot. If all goes well, we will move the /home partition to the disk array early tomorrow morning (3am or so), which will triple the size of /home. -Scott

Sat Dec 27 17:27:53 PST 1997 — Folks using single-user dialup ISDN on PM7 (547-2000) may have seen some strange routing this afternoon — that was _our_ fault, not your fault! We made a routing change that caused some problems, and it is now fixed. Sorry about that. -Scott

Fri Dec 26 05:20:56 PST 1997 — There was a short, planned interruption in mail services this morning, while we moved mailboxes over to the Network Appliance. This should speed up all aspects of our email system, including local delivery of mailing lists. -Scott

Thu Dec 25 12:00:00 PST 1997 — Happy Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Holidays! And thank you: Chris and Mattie, for administering the toy and food programs; and all those who contributed! -Scott

Thu Dec 25 20:34:02 PST 1997 — There will be a short interruption in mail services tomorrow morning, while we move mailboxes over to the Network Appliance. We’re shooting for 3am. -Scott

Fri Dec 19 10:52:28 PST 1997 — We are having some work done in the machine room this morning and a circuit breaker tripped. This may have caused some connections to drop and some odd behavior with authentication. Sorry for any inconvience. -Brian

Wed Dec 17 10:44:00 PST 1997 — We currently have on electrical circuit that is overloaded. We are working on moving equipment off to another curcuit. This may cause some erratic behavior in the X2 hunt group. We should be done by 1 P.M. -Brian

Wed Dec 17 09:48:39 PST 1997 — We are currently have one electrical circuit that is overloaded. We are working on moving equipment off to another curcuit. This may cause some erratic behavior in the X2 hunt group. We should be done by 11 A.M. -Brian