On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 Gav... wrote: > Hi All, > > Infra are working towards removing Helios our Zones machine. The Zones are > to be replaced with FreeBSD (8.1-RC2 currently) Jails. > > All projects zones are to be moved over the next few weeks. I have been > tasked mainly with this job, with help from others as > required. > > I have created new Jails but have yet to migrate an existing zone to a jail, > so I would like to start on familiar ground and > get the Forrest Zone moved - this week if possible. Anyone who has an acct > on our current zone setup will if they still require > it, get an acct on the new Jail. > > Does anyone foresee any issues in doing this? Is the timing ok? > > The only thing I can see is that FreeBSD (and now Debian/Ubuntu) uses the > Diablo Java rather than the sun jdk so if anyone knows > of any issues with that please let me know. > > I envisage a short crossover period where we will have both available > (forrest.zones.a.o and forrest2.zones.a.o) until we are happy all > is well at our new digs. > > If no objections I'll start soon (next couple of days)
Some messages have been going to the private@ forrest list for this. So trying to bring the technical discussion back here. The old zone is being switched off on Friday 17 September i.e. in a few days. Tim and i have done some quick checks. I noticed that there have been changes to various files server-side on the new zone that are under SVN in forrest/zone So those changes need to be brought back and committed. Our zone documentation needs to be fixed: http://forrest.apache.org/zone.html Also we saw recently a failure with the old zone, but did not get an email message from the new zone. So perhaps something wrong with email orginating from the new zone. I will make a deliberate break, and see what happens. However i do not have much time for this. So if someone else can help, that would be good. -David
