- 245: UNIX, Site base, Fri 12-Jul-1996 22:28:54 GMT, Exabyte is REALLY slow
During yesterday's bkfiles and backup.flatland,
the Exabyte was agonizingly slow. Does this mean
that it needs to be cleaned?
- 304: UNIX, Site base, Fri 19-Jul-1996 20:09:34 GMT, Using new ppp phone number
The phone company just disconnected the line we have been calling to connect
to the network. (net66 says that Ameritech messed up in the process of
changing to a centrex system). Anyway, we have been switched to a new
number: 344-5876, so I updated /etc/dp/dp.conf. I couldn't figure out a
graceful way to stopdp (I thought there was a command by this name, but I
couldn't find it), so I "kill -9"'ed the process and restarted it using
/etc/dpctl. This appeared to work. net66 said that they also changed us
off of the latest modems "...tech" and onto a Motorola one. I noticed
that we are now back on at 21600 baud.
I hope the line is stable from now on...
- 397: UNIX, Site ASTER, Thu 01-Aug-1996 14:58:47 GMT, aster rebooted yesterday
We forgot to note that we rebooted aster itself yesterday (and thus
also cosmos) because the serial port was "locked" and wouldn't let
the dp process connect to the outside world over the modem.
(We had tried restarting dp, but even kermit couldn't connect to the
port.) Rebooting fixed the problem.
- 408: UNIX, Site base, Sat 03-Aug-1996 19:04:36 GMT, ASTER rebooted and cosmos rebooted
Rebooted ASTER after fouling up the cosmos data collection.
Documentation on ASTER operations is sparse. Sun system administration
documentation is not here. Splus documentation not here either.