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- 2) I stated in both e-mail and verbally to you that I did not want
- genie upgraded until carpet was upgraded to my satisfaction. You went
- ahead and upgraded genie anyway. The result of this is that (a) I don't
- know what state the hardware is in (df shows /dev/sdb1 and sdb2 -- did you
- install another disk? -- but not /dev/sda1 and sda2), (b) mail is not being
- delivered from vix to genie (but even if it were, I wouldn't be able to
- read it on lamp, since emacs' rmail facility relies on getting mail from
- /var/spool/mail which used to be a cross-mount to the same directory on
- genie but which I unmounted at your request), and (c) the ppp link is so
- unreliable as to be unusable -- it drops carrier about every 20 minutes (it
- stayed up for many days at a time before the upgrade), and as of midnight
- last night, it was unable to reconnect to vix.com after 2 dialing attempts
- and therefore (because of a poorly written restart daemon script) never
- reconnected. The evidence is from "last | grep ppghost" on vix.com:
-
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 23:57 - 00:41 (00:43)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 23:30 - 23:54 (00:23)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 22:39 - 23:16 (00:37)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 22:21 - 22:38 (00:16)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 22:13 - 22:21 (00:07)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 21:38 - 22:08 (00:30)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 17:57 - 18:06 (00:09)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 17:39 - 17:53 (00:14)
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 17:08 - 17:36 (00:27)
- >>> upgrade happened here
- ppghost tty06 Sat Aug 9 01:26 - 16:43 (15:17)
- ppghost tty06 Thu Aug 7 11:19 - 01:25 (1+14:06)
- ppghost tty06 Sun Aug 3 01:36 - 11:18 (4+09:42)
-
- 3) You left genie in a state where it apparently will not accept
- remote logins. While this may be desirable, it is not the way things were
- before; I gave no indication that I wanted this changed; and it makes it
- impossible for my previous system administrator (who is located on the East
- Coast) to assist me.
-
- I appreciate the work that you have done, especially the acquisition and
- installation of the tape drive, but at this point things are much worse
- than when you started, and if they don't get fixed within 24 hours they
- will have a severe negative impact on my business, which relies almost
- entirely on e-mail for communication with customers and business and
- development partners.
-
- Please call me immediately at my home # (650)329-0264 so that we may
- arrange for you to return as soon as possible and get my environment back
- to a usable state.
-
- L. Peter Deutsch | Aladdin Enterprises :::: ghost@aladdin.com
- 203 Santa Margarita Ave. | tel. +1-650-322-0103 (AM only); fax +1-650-322-1734
- | ** NOTE ^^^ NEW AREA CODE AS OF AUG. 1 ^^^ **
- Menlo Park, CA 94025 | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
- "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
-
-
- From ghost Sun Aug 10 12:16:26 1997
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:15:54 -0700 (PDT)
- From: ghost@vix.com (L Peter Deutsch)
- To: alvin@planet.fef.com
- cc: rasko@kset.com, rob@cisco.com, chrisd@loc201.tandem.com,
- rick@hugin.imat.com, ghost@vix.com, ghost@aladdin.com,
- director@well.com
- Subject: More on Saturday's work at Aladdin
-
- I noticed the following in the notes you left:
-
- 1) "We have successfully installed 4.2 onto our hard disk 4Gb (IDE
- drive = hdb)." Sorry for my confusion in the previous e-mail: I misread
- hdb as sdb in the df printout. I now understand that you installed a 4Gb
- IDE drive with 4.2 on it. This is worse than useless to me: if I use this
- drive for real work, I'm stuck with a lower-performance drive (IDE drives
- are generally lower-performance than SCSI), while if I don't, I either have
- to drop back to 3.0.3 (which I have no idea how to do) or be paralyzed
- (i.e., unable to use genie for any purpose that might involve storing new
- information) until you come back to install 4.2 on the SCSI drive.
-
- 2) "X11R6 is working -- need to fix bus mouse vs. serial mouse".
- In other words, X isn't usable on genie; it was perfectly usable before the
- upgrade, although some peculiarity of the display controller made it
- impossible to switch back from X to character mode (the display lost sync).
-
- 3) "Your old genie is still untouched, though the old 3.0.3 kernel
- does not recognize the network card while new Red Hat 4.2 is OK." genie
- had no problem talking to the network card before the upgrade. This means
- that whatever you did prevents me from going back to 3.0.3 and having a
- usable environment, because network connectivity is necessary for telnet,
- ftp, and mail.
-
- Please call me immediately when you get this e-mail, regardless of day or
- time. I didn't realize before reading your notes more carefully that not
- only are things badly broken, I apparently can't go back to the way they
- used to be.
-
- L. Peter Deutsch | Aladdin Enterprises :::: ghost@aladdin.com
- 203 Santa Margarita Ave. | tel. +1-650-322-0103 (AM only); fax +1-650-322-1734
- | ** NOTE ^^^ NEW AREA CODE AS OF AUG. 1 ^^^ **
- Menlo Park, CA 94025 | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
- "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
-
-
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