Oops. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM Subject: Re: proxies, IP addresses, and grad box counts To: Theresa Kehoe
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Will you let me know if/when the proxy issue is sorted out? The > Debian graduate disk image has a script stored in /root/bworks/bin > called .bworks.upgrade (I think?) which uses a specific IP address for > proxy, runs apt-get clean, apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade. > Obviously that isn't working (we will need to revise the script to > account for the new network addressing unless there is a way to use > something like forwarding to make the old address work), but also, I > noticed from building grad boxes that Debian's upgrades aren't caching, > so it is bog-slow (30 minutes to an hour per box) and that the more we > run the more we slow down the entire network. Ugh. As I've already indicated, there are some tweaks that need to be made to the proxy config. Will attend to that first thing Saturday. The new proxy is "transparent," so we should remove the "http_proxy= 192.168.0.2" line from the bworks.update script. > 2. Is there some way to let everyone know that, before just assigning > random static IP addresses to devices like video cameras, they just > *might* want to consider checking with mej, the network administrator??? > (nudge, nudge, Dave) I'll take the blame for this one- I've not yet published the details of the new network setup. But yeah, can we not statically assign IPs without checking with me first? And by the way Dave, 192.168.3.6 is free. =) 3. Can you do a count of the number of "grad ready" boxes we have? I > believe we will need 12 (plus 2 more for spares) by graduation week (and > when is that, also, if you can check?). I'll do a count, but I won't have much time to work on grad machines. -mej- :wq! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
