Several projects eating time in the last couple of weeks.
Cyclades console server
It died. I’ll be getting tech support on it to tell me what to do next. In the mean time, we have:
Caprica name server
This will be a replacement for Eirene, since it’s actually in the machine room and in the racks. Right now it’s been delegated the priv.earlham.edu subnet and runs a DHCP server for the private network. The idea here is that the private net /etc/hosts file was getting unwieldly and it’d be good to have that in DNS. Since the console server died, I decided to use the ethernet ports on the Sun ALOM as alternate consoles; having them speak DHCP was the easiest. The main trick there is that they require infinite lease times.
Timezone updates
As Indiana begins to observe DST, timezone info must be updated. All the Solaris boxes have patches for this (113225-03 for Solaris 9, 109809-03 for Solaris 8). This does the right thing for the Indiana time zone. On the FreeBSD systems, I’ve simply been setting the localtime to EST5EDT; the main problem we’ll see is in timestamps of files (off by an hour isn’t a huge concern for most of these systems).
Posted by Rowan Littell at March 29, 2006 03:55 PM