[huskerlug] Re: [olug] Husker LUG

[Cesar Delgado]

There's many issues with the HLUG cluster.  As Carl hass stated in some 
other email these issues are of space and ports mostly.  Once upon a 
time I was talking wit the higher ups in IS about gettin' an ISO server 
for the HLUG on campus.  We got to a point where there was a machine and 
space and when it came down to give us access to the machine, everything 
crapped out and nothing came of it.

As Carl also said in another email, I do greatly apreceate that everyone 
in the HLUG's so generous and is willing to send money this way for the 
upkeep of the port and such but a better solution has to be found.  The 
place where we keep the machiens right now (intop of some filing 
cabinets, I kid you not) has to be requested every year and there's 
always the possibility that we might not have that space at any moment. 
  I do have plans to make the cluster a fun project for those interested 
using LVS, Coda, as well as the thing being heterogenious, but as of now 
I think it's just going to stay in my head.

I don't know what to do about finding a permanent home for the cluster, 
or even if it's not a cluster, just 1 machine.  I'll try to find a 
solution to this as time, and resources permit.

-Cesar

Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> The cluster got its port shut off for two reasons.
> a) The cluster got root-kitted and wasn't playing nice on the net (spam,
> windows hack attempts etc).  When IS sees that type of activity from a
> machine it kills its port (but still charges for it).
> 
> b) The port charge at UNL is not $0.  Although not expensive
> ($5-$8/month), the budget for HLUG ran into the red.  I had them shutoff
> the port (which had already been shutoff) until we can figure out what
> we want to do with the machines.
> 
> Right now I don't know who has access to the room the machines are in so
> we can retrieve them and get hlug.unl.edu running again.  I also don't
> know who's arm I can twist to get the port fee waved.
> 
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:36 -0500, Jaymz Ringler wrote:
> 
>>Did the cluster die?  Did Caesar steal it to play chess against Prairie
>>Fire?  A more likely explanation:  We probably didn't pay our $4.00 per
>>month connectivity fee to the University and they ganked us from the
>>network.  
>>
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