Welcome back from the weekend, which was actually relatively painless except for the usual set of automounter issues. We're close to giving up on all that. Today was a day filled with lots of chores - including trying to maximize how much raw data we have on line for splitting over the long weekend.

We did have a server hiccup today due to an administrative script corrupting an /etc/passwd file (thanks to aforementioned automounter problems). It's hard to maintain a server if the "root" user disappears from the passwd file. So I had to boot from DVD to file the corrupt file. Just so happens this was the server I was having BIOS issues last week, and they happened again! Without my consent it reset the boot drive sequence, causing a little bit of annoyance and grief. Eric and I are thinking there's a dead battery involved.

Reminder: this is a "short week" for us, thanks to the turkey day.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Thanks for the report and the good work.

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Thanks for all the hard work, I hope you all enjoy the 4 day weekend.

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Just a reminder to kick the replica when you're done today, it looks as if BoincStats were unable to get updates overnight.

Also, we've had reports (and I have also seen) work dl problems, http errors, overnight and earlier today. Unlike the previous Vader type problems these are intermit.

Oh, and yes, thanks! keeping us in the loop.

Hi admin
I've just noticed that As of 25 Nov 2008 22:10:12 UTC the tapes listed below have a size of 0.00GB
27oc08aa
30oc08aa
30oc08ab

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