May 2013 - Core-other - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Where's Craig
by Craig Stacey 14 May '13

14 May '13

I have a 9:15 doctor appointment tomorrow, so I will miss the MCS sync. Hopefully I can make it back in time for my 10 AM mail migration meeting. Max, if I'm not, I'm hoping you can make it. -- Craig

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Sitting on 55.
by Tina Stanton-Piersanti 14 May '13

14 May '13

Haven't even hit weber yet ! Sent from my iPhone

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[CELS Sysadmins] The Nagios Devs are Weeeeeird.
by Craig Stacey 13 May '13

13 May '13

Got a kick out of this. The example is great. http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase/faqs/index.php?option=com_content&v… -- Craig _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov and systems(a)alcf.anl.gov. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.

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Doughnuts at the Help Desk
by Tina Stanton-Piersanti 13 May '13

13 May '13

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where's LInda 5/14
by Linda Winkler 13 May '13

13 May '13

Downtown at UC attending a Networking Workshop all day Tues. Call my cell 630-730-9807 if you need anything. lw

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Questions of the Week....
by Tina Stanton-Piersanti 13 May '13

13 May '13

Just when you think we have forgotten about the puzzles, you find them still here! This time, we will look at some more outside the box thinking. Each of these questions has some "trick" to them. Can you figure them out? Explain your reasoning in coming up with the answers. Why are 2004 dollars worth more than 1934 dollars? Is it acceptable for a man to marry his widow's sister? How many times can you subtract the number 1 from the number fifty? What clock keeps the best time - one that loses a minute each day or one that doesn't run at all? I will be answering these tonight myself.. So far these look like the easiest ones yet. T.

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Second test
by Craig Stacey 11 May '13

11 May '13

Forgot something. -- Craig (from my mobile)

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Test
by Craig Stacey 11 May '13

11 May '13

Testing -- Craig (from my mobile)

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Solaris/opensolaris/openindiana/illumos/whatever zpool upgrade
by Hunter Matthews 10 May '13

10 May '13

All, For the last couple of days our big fileserver dakar has been down due to failure to boot correctly. The symptom is that you'd get a grub command line, no grub menu and the typical well documented manual boot commands did not work. This started from (I believe) a zpool upgrade command. This is a fairly innocuous command that just updates the on disk zpool/zfs format to match newer kernels and zfs drivers as they are released. Something went wrong. In conversing with the experts on the IRC channel(s) "thats not supposed to do that" was invoked a couple of times. I urge caution for any planned upgrades our zfs systems until this is better understood. And note: you can zpool/zfs upgrade all the data pools til the cows come home - this problem only manifests on the root pool (rpool) where latest and greatest zfs should be close to irrelevant. Its a grub/boot issue and thus only relevant on the rpool. I now know a bit more about booting solaris and will try and prepare a document later. -- Hunter Matthews Unix Administrator Office: Bldg 240 Room 2139 Argonne National Labs, MCS Key: F0F88438 / FFB5 34C0 B350 99A4 BB02 9779 A5DB 8B09 F0F8 8438 Never take candy from strangers. Especially on the internet. [Sharing with the wider group of sysadmins --Craig]

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where's Linda 5/10
by Linda Winkler 10 May '13

10 May '13

Leaving at 1115 today for dr appt. working from home after that. Call my cell if you need anything. 630-730-9807 lw

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