From: W.J. Llope (llope_at_physics.rice.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 15:18:26 EDT
At 1:54 PM -0500 6/9/03, Frank Geurts wrote:
>Hi,
> Wayne Betts and I wonder whether an upgrade of the tofpdaq.starp
>and tofp.starp would be an approriate step this summer. For Wayne
>there are the obvious security issues involved in any machine that
>is connected to the network: most if not all STAR machines are
>registered with ITD. ITD requires us to keep our machines secure,
>however both machines are running RH6 and therefore not updated
>anymore (RH6 support has been phased out more than a year ago). The
>benefits for us would be that we don't need to worry about the
>machines loosing outbound network connectivity and that the
>machines could run along with Wayne's STAR-wide update schedulers
>(like the tofgas machine already does). Wayne is aware of the
>critical mission that these machines have and will always contact me
>in case of (emergency) updates.
>
>
>What I would like to suggest is buying two new harddisks (one for
>tofp and one for tofr) which will have the new operating systems
>installed and keep the old disks (w/ the RH6 on it) as a backup.
>This guarantees a working system in October, even if it would mean
>that we had to go back to the old version/harddisk (i am not aware
>of any kernel issues for the PCI DAQ cards, but don't like to find
>out any when it is too late)
hi - if you can provide manufacturer/model & other details,
i will order the disks (if possible) out of the TOFp M&S money.
hasta
>Comments?
>
>cheers,
> Frank
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