10/24 alumni.eecs is down again. Could someonw with root powers check it
out? thanks!
\_ mail root@alumni.eecs. heh.
\_ tried that before. no one checks root email there.
\_ I was joking.
\_ root@ucsee.eecs, http://ucb.org.ucsee
\_ actually, the machine itself is up (it's ping-able) but the telnet
service isn't. Been seeing some weird things with alumni/ucsee
machines today. :-(
\_ Time for a three-finger salute?
\_ REBOOT! REBOOT! REBOOT IS THE STANDARD!
\_ Hmm... single-user mode perhaps?
\_ Then a single-finger salute is in order.
\_ OK it's up, but old mail still needs to be delivered. Dunno whose
responsibility that is.
|__ Hey jon, feeling a bit tense about alumni.eecs?
\_ FOAD --jon
\_ PLUR --jon
\_ I'd help you but I quit for reasons that anybody, who has typed
uname on alumni, can figure out. The other sysadmins have
graduated. Given that you have a csua account, one wonders why
you would even want your alumni account back up. But if I have
any spare time from cs 152 I'll see if I can get it going again.
--jeff
\_ how about replacing alumni? would anyone be willing to do it
if I donate an old sparc lx?
\_ You really think a $50 computer will help?
\_ it's better than the current alumni.
\_ email jon@soda; he may be willing.
\_ I hate that machine. I don't know why I bother with it.
Fuck ultrix, fuck clueless users who think they are
entitled to services, and fuck flaky hardware. --jon
*just* enough crochety and cluess alums (who don't
seem to understand that the machine is run by
student volunteers rather than paid admins) to
make life as a sysadmin there awfully annoying.
\_ what? are you mocking that bad ass DEC Station 3100
running Ultrix, the best OS ever?
running Ultrix?
running Ultrix, the best OS ever?
\_ PLUR --jon
\_ FOAD --jon
\_ Well (speaking from some personal experience), not
only does alumni.EECS have the DS/Ultrix thing
going against it, but it also has a user base with
*just* enough crochety and clueless alums (who
don't seem to understand that the machine is run
by student volunteers rather than paid admins) to
make life as a sysadmin there incredibly annoying.
I appreciate having the "@alumni.EECS.Berkeley"
mailing address, and would be more than willing to
throw in my share of cash for a replacement
machine, but can understand why the current
caretakers would want to throw in the towel.
Maybe the dept. should take over the hostname for
some kind of mail-forwarding arrangement, or some
competent alum volunteers should step forward to
take a share of root-type responsibilities . . .
-- former root@alumni.EECS person
\_ Nonononono, as a crotchety clueless alum, I
insist we stand by tradition and have students
continue trying to support dead hardware running
a badly b0rken bsd clone from 10 years ago. I'll
tell ya, Back In My Day, we were lucky to have
\_ FOAD --jon
a 4 meg sun 3/50 with swap mounted remotely on
another sun over a 10mbit shared networked. You
youngin's today... whine whine whine....
\_ PLUR --jon
--- clueless crotchety alum
PLUR an acronym for?
\_ FOAD --jon
\_ pardon my cluelessness but what is
FOAD an acronym for?
\_ you left out "and sharing the same
swap server with 20 other machines
was a small price to pay..."
\_ I thought of that but didn't want to
re-edit to add it in. Any other clueless
\_ FOAD --jon
crotchety alum would've known what I was
talking about.
still time! (Oh yeah, and FOAD.)
\_ I volunteered less ancient h/w
before, but no one reads root email
on alumni. I think alums should
volunteer h/w, but sysadmin should
\_ PLUR --jon
be a student service for someone who
wants to learn sysadmin stuff.
still time! (Oh yeah, and PLUR.)
\_ Its still down for some reason after a brief uptime...
\_ FOAD --jon
\_ Because it's an ancient piece of crap.
\_ It's back up now, so move your files off of it while there's
still time! (Oh yeah, and FOAD.)
\_ As an alum, I definitely wouldn't mind making donations of cash,
or hardware to keep alumni alive. This should be an organized
effort, though. Something that is sanctioned and kept alive
from generation to generation.
\_ Too late. The powers that be are talking about making a
subscription mail forwarding $ervice.
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