Richard Gambrell wrote:
>
> "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote:
> >
> > Wow, it sure is quiet when the Yanks have a holiday!
>
> Hey, I was busy working all day programming and UTC doesn't take
> today as a holiday.

Yeah, and Richard and I spent much of yesterday rearranging gear in the
machine room (damn, a two-bay 9000 pushed adjacent to a 1 1/2
bay 3000 looks quite impressive).

One of these days I'll have to put up a web page with some pics of
our playroom (from the T1s down to Raven itself).

Trivia:  we had a 3:40:00 power outage in the early morning hours of
Sunday.  This shutdown our 9000 of course (which does an orderly
shutdown a minute [by default] after the A/C failure).  It also
outlasted our computer room UPS (run time 90 minutes on batteries).
The only thing still kicking through it all was our 969/120, which
surprised the hell out of me.  It has network problems (default gateway
dead since the router was dead after the UPS ran out) but it
was up, and still had a console prompt and not the expected boot prompt
of "Boot from primary path?" question.  And yes, that was three
hours and forty minutes, on a power-trust UPS, and no, it is not on one
of the circuits with the main room UPS, so it didn't get the 90 minutes
of cheating.

More trivia:  we lost some configuration options on our border router
due to the power failure, so any mail problems you may have had with
raven, or connectivity to raven's web page were due to the router
problem.  After sorting out other campus network problems, we got back
to the border router problem and stabilized it about 1:00 PM EDT today
(Monday).  Before that, it was hit-and-miss, we would stay up about 10
minutes and drop off the face of the planet for about 20-30 minutes, and
the cycle continued until we fixed things.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>