Archive:Downtime 2007

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Prospective Date: 28th October 2007

Well Volunteered:

• Pert
• Aragorn
• Seth

Things to achieve:

• Clean/service Piper's cooling system
  • Not that service doesn't go amiss, but is there anything actually wrong with it? Seth
  • At least two fans have stopped. --Pert 14:45, 30 September 2007 (BST)

• Remove old patch panel and associated Cat5

• Retire Davros, Mccoy and Davison

• Move IRCd to VM on WOTAN and Retire Adric

• Reconfigure Vislor as the backup server
  • Tennant? Serial consoles are nice, but maybe it's a speed issue? Seth
  • It's a RAM and speed issue. The rsyncs to Tennant were taking far too long. --Pert 14:45, 30 September 2007 (BST)

• Skip old/useless hardware from room/cupboard/bacam's office
  • I noticed a bunch of old PC cases there I didn't recognise, has someone mistaken tardis for a skip? Seth
  • Yeah, looks like it. --Pert 14:45, 30 September 2007 (BST)

• Move all users' home directories into one place and change the current directories into symlinks. This will mean that there is no need to run automount and '/home' can become a symlink to '/tardis/home'.

Prerequisites:

• Alert users to downtime
  • IRC channel - Done --Pert 21:28, 29 September 2007 (BST)
  • Mailing List: Allusers
  • /etc/motd - Done by Aragorn

• WD40/3in1 Oil

• Complete configuration of Ace, Mara and Skaro

• Build IRCd package for etch and move agyeman to WOTAN

• Find/buy BIG disk for Vislor
  • What's wrong with the one in tennant? Seth
  • They are a bit fucked and new ones are very cheap. --Pert 14:53, 30 September 2007 (BST)
  • I think we decided in the pub, that one of the 120GB disks from tennant will do the job in vislor so no need to find/buy a new disk. --Pert 16:23, 6 October 2007 (BST)

• Ask .inf.ed about disposal of hardware

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