On Mon, 28 May 2001, guy keren wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 May 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > But I need to know in advance who will be my contact person in Actcom. Can
> > I do the reboot at every random time, or should I notify it several days
> > ahead so people will know not to download things at that time?
>
> since the ftp service doesn't work at all, then i guess a 1-2 days in
> advance warning is good enough (warn on the mailing list(s), as well as on
> the site's front page, i guess).
>
> as to contact people, you can talk to anyone from the suport personel,
> tell them you're shlomi from linux-il, and ask when is it possible to get
> there to do maintanance work on the 'iglu' computer they are hosting. if
> they don't know, they'll refer you to the systems personel. btw, i'd
> recommend you get there on off-hours (i.e. after 5pm) when there's les
> pressure around, but tell them in advance you're coming there, so they'll
> know who you are and what you're doing there.
>
I'll need some contacts telephone nubmers and E-mails. Or do I simply have
to call Actcom and the operator will forward me to the right extension? Or
should I RTFM the actcom site?
I'll see how my schedule is next week. I might be able to go there on
Monday, but I'm not sure.
> > In any case, are there any other volunteers?
>
> i could do that too, if the need arises. i've been there twice so far
> (once to connect the server to the network, and once to run an fsck).
>
I have studies to care for, so my available schedule is irregular. If you
can do it instead, I'll be grateful.
> > You mean: I'll have to wait for an fsck on a 70GB disk to complete? Oh,
> > brother!
>
> it takes much shorter then you might think. the disks are very fast.
> fscking the md device took less then half an hour, as far as i remember
> (closer to 10 minutes, i think).
>
I'm glad to hear that. But, in any case, it might be wise to switch to
ext3fs, which is the same as ext2 but has journalling.
Thinking about it, we might wish to upgrade to RH7.1 some time soon, as
RPM 4.0 will enable us to install more up-to-date packages. Did anybody
notice we are still running Apache/1.3.12?
Are there any "horror stories" about what happened after installing
RedHat version 7.1, beside the usual caveats of upgrading to a new
version? I did not hear anything too serious, but then again I did not
hear too many reports of people who installed it either.
Does RedHat 7.1 support ext3fs out of the box?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> --
> guy
>
> "For world domination - press 1,
> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
>
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