Fwd: Perl Mongers Recent Events

[Joel Meulenberg]

FYI on recent hfb.pm.org outage, etc...

--- Wayne Walker <wwalker at mail.gocho.net> wrote:
> From: Wayne Walker <wwalker at mail.gocho.net>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:56:52 -0600
> To: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com
> Subject: Perl Mongers Recent Events
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> You are recieving this email because you have an account on or
> administer a mailing list on the server hfb.pm.org to apprise   
> you of recent events, give you an idea of what is currently going
> on and what you might be able to expect in the near future.
> 
> Recently the box known as hfb.pm.org went off-line due to a 
> communications breakdown. The situation was unexpected and we 
> have attempted to respond to the situation as quickly and as
> efficiently as possible. We appreciate your continuing patience
> throughout this troublesome transition.
> 
> Short term situation -
> --------------------
> 
> - temporary box running RH 6.2
> 
> - ssh, scp and sftp access only. If you lack a ssh client this is 
>   your oportunity to obtain one. 
>  
>   http://www.onsight.com/faq/ssh/ssh-faq-2.html#ss2.2 lists many of
>   the currently available clients on a number of platforms.
> 
> - accounts are active with web page content residing in;
>   /opt/apache/gocho.pm.org/80/htdocs/pm.org/<groupname>/
> 
>   e.g., the home page for http://madrid.pm.org/ is at
>   /opt/apache/gocho.pm.org/80/htdocs/pm.org/madrid/index.htm
> 
> - account home directory contents are not avaiable yet.
> 
> - some services are not fully configured yet. 
> 
> - mailing lists are managable via http://gocho.pm.org/majorcool/
> 
> - disk space is limited currently, please be considerate when
>   transferring files.
> 
> - accounts are intended for web space for groups only -- not personal
> accounts.  inactive accounts (i.e. empty web directories or no
> logins)
> will be suspended.
> 
> - there will be a disk and resource quota on accounts. this can be
> changed per user, given proper justification.
> 
> Future plans -
> ------------
> 
> - Sparc (hfb) back on-line with new OS 
> 
> - new and improved mailing list management
> 
> - other services as they arise
> 
> In the short-term, please do not install modules in your home
> directory.
> Please email me with "MODULE INSTALL" as the subject and I'll respond
> within 24 hours to your particular issue. Again, disk space is at
> somewhat of a premium so please do be considerate when uploading
> content for your web pages.
> 
> Again, thank you for your continued patience and support though this
> transition. Please let me know if you experience problems with your
> content or your mailing list and I'll respond as quickly as possible.
> 
> --
> 
> Wayne Walker
> Perl Hacker and SysAdmin for pm.org


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