Michael McCabe

Progress Report

Feb 6 2005

Here's some of the things that I have done over the past two weeks for COSI.

• Installed Debian on Statler

• Installed Debian on Waldorf

• Setup a raid unit on Statler

• Applied security updates to animal

• Started preparations for mirroring Debian Linux (Intel, Sparc and s390 Architectures)

• Meet with the Dean of Arts and Sciences

• Reviewed the OSDL Data Center Linux Initiative Contest entries

• Meet with Creigh about installing Nagios on the lab machines

• Made arrangements to return Bryan Clark's hardware that is still in the lab

Here's the mailing list questions answered for the Open AFS development list.

1. There are usually between 5 and 10 messages on the list per day.

2. There were several different people posting.

3. The two major topics were kernel panics on ppc_linux_26 and an 8-way itanium 2 server that runs Suse Enterprise Linux.

4. The topic that interested me most were the patches for using OpenAfs on the s390x architecture.

5. The list is archived at https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/

6. You can join the list at https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel

7. The average Linux/Unix user probably wouldn't be able to understand the topics on this list, they are generally about the stability of the development version of OpenAFS

8. Developers or experienced who are interested in OpenAFS development and don't mind seeing a lot of kernel panics from different Unix Operating Systems.

9. New users post occasionally on the list.

10. New users are generally treated quite well on the list especially because there is a recurring theme of problems on the list (It's generally a configuration issue that causes a kernel panic/core dump).