15 Oct 2002 Bryce   » (Master)

Tuesday

Whee. Heavy rain. Rained all day. It's been so long since I've seen a decent downpour. NC is fine if you like near endless sunshine, but that gets horribly monotonous after a few months.

Picked through the Linux device drivers book. Wrote a few test modules without upsetting the kernel too much. Theres a number of USB devices I have that I'd like to get up and running under linux.

Poped online and started taking stock of the shape of the Zen* cluster. Lots of jobs to sort out 8/ ZenII only has a couple of weeks to go to pass the 'been running continously for a year' mark. I've promised _rmk_ that I'll update the kernel then, though there is a running concern that because ZenII hasn't been rebooted for such a long time we're unsure if it will reboot ok or not. Ummm...

Rearranged some of the weblogs which were somewhat large and tidied up the ftp archive space a bit. ZenIIIb seems to be out of disk space for ftp use. I think I'll subject it to log analysis and work out whats being mirrored that people simply arn't downloading and nuke it.

_A_ managed to tread into hot water by nuking mum's Zen account and a few others. He made the clasic mistake of believeing lastlog which is notoriously broken. Especially with Zen having been up and running so long many active accounts have simply dropped off the end of thelog. Corrected the problem before mum found out. Actually a number of accounts went the same way and I spent a while ressurecting them.

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