- Corrections to minutes of 2002-05-28
- Matters arising from minutes of last meeting (2002-05-28)
- Actions Arising: machine purchase CEG to discuss machine
purchase mechanism. (noted 2002-02-19)
[Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
Machines and monitors orderedDone
- Actions
Arising - teaching software:
A summary message is due to go to all teaching staff. It was
also suggested that tutors and lab demonstrators, where known
for next year, need to be included in the pilot process. Done
- Actions Arising - faster
deployment: Use of XDM and issues of speeding up deployment
of DICE. [CEG].
Agreed that we can replace all clients with DICE machines by
Summer 2003.
Done
- Actions Arising - Doc
types: Deployment tasks need to notify Alison what types of
documents they will be producing. [All deployment task
'owners'].
Little progress. Jeremy to discuss wiht Alison methods for
extracting this information from COs.
Ongoing
Carwyn is going to take over from Lex the auto-generation of
docs and package lists for LCFG and DICE.
- Actions Arising - DICE
deployment publicity: Site managers should make sure that
this publicity is provided. [Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
Ongoing
- Actions Arising - Conversion
of accounts to UUN: Site managers should contact those
users who will need to change their username to warn them again
of the need for the change. [Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
Ongoing
Final UUN changes are being clarified with Christine
Rees. [Roger]
Ongoing
- Actions Arising -
Filesystem Maps:
Decisions:
ltg- to appear as
/legacy/ltg. (Other groups such as CSTR, AIAI and
ANC have still to be decided.)
- DCS student projects:
- to appear as
/projects/<thing> where 'thing' is not a
user.
aisubmit - will use
/home/submit
Done
- Actions Arising - MIS
feed: check about getting data direct.[Neil]
Waiting for the feed to be setup in due course. Ongoing
- Actions Arising - Common Home
Directories: unification of groups. [Roger]. List of 'top
ten' groups from each site needs to be finalised
Ongoing
- Actions Arising -
Backups. A person responsible needs to be allocated to the
stage 1 task. (noted 2002-04-02) [CEG]
Bill is looking into setting up local drives and using amanda
server on mailhub and homepages servers.
Done
- Timetable: update
milestones with timetable dates. (noted 2002-04-30) [All]
Ongoing
- Groups Load group name to GID mappings
into LDAP. (noted 2002-05-14)[Roger/Bill]
Ongoing
- Spam:
Get EUCS configuration for filtering mail from blacklisted
sites. (noted 2002-05-14)
This will be included in the sendmail.cf that we
will get from EUCS.
Done
- Hardware Remaining server hardware to be
ordered. (noted 2002-05-14) [Alastair]
Login
servers still to be spec'ed but can also use existing
machines. Ongoing
- ssh/Kerberos:Add note on use
of public keys vs. Kerberos credentials. (noted 2002-05-28).
Ongoing
- Milestones/bugzilla:
Simon suggested it would be useful to add the milestones to
bugzilla. Needed extra permissions from Simon. (noted 2002-05-28)
[Jeremy]
Ongoing
- Common Home Directories:
Decision is that sites will move en masse after Examiner's
Meetings
Done
- COs using DICE:
COs need to move to using DICE machines by 31/5 where
possible. (noted 2002-05-28) [non-DICE COs]
Ongoing
- Automail bug reports : Gate new bug
reports into
cos@inf. Done
- Kerberos principals for
new accounts: Resolve how this is being done. [Neil/Simon]
Ongoing
- amd: this seems to be
related largely to laptops but is being
investigated. [George/Alastair]
Ongoing
- XDM: the XDM component
needs to be ported. [George]
Done, but may be superseded by KDM. Some systems complain about
a missing Shape extension this may be a fork of an earlier
Xfree86 bug.
Done
- Trusted inf hosts
generate list and populating LDAP. [Simon]
Ongoing
- Timetable: provide
graphical version.
Done
- Disseminating DICE info
There was a discussion about how to improve the spread of DICE
knowledge. Proposals:
- COs should post more queries to
cos@inf.
- The list will be made searchable by tweaking the Harvester
config.
[ACTION: Neil]
- non-KB COs should make use of the KB CO room to have better
access to those in the know.
- Partitions & rfe
The partitions file needs to be checked (rfe -g
partitions) to make sure it is up-to-date.
[ACTION: John/Bill/Iain]
There is no way to get a list of all rfe-able files at the moment.
Simon will look into an option to rfe so that it will
list them.
[ACTION: Simon]
- Timetable Review
The following were noted as 'done':
- NFS service (
/legacy, firewalling)
- CHD
- mail agents review
- teach usage
- which students using DICE
The following dates were revised:
- inf accounts ready for alll current staff: now 15 Jun (was 7 Jun)
- UUN issues sorted out, now 15 Jun (was 7 Jun)
- fault tracking: now 31 Jul (was 30 Jun)
- associate accounts: now 31 Jul (was 30 Jun)
Login servers: there will be one ssh multi-user
server and each site should make available a public access DICE
machine/console for people to test.
Other servers: all remaining servers are either at sites or
ready to be installed.
The revised timetable is here.
- General Issues
The infrastructure task met on 2002-05-31 (minutes).
A holidays page needs to be put online, with an
indication of who is covering while the person is away.
[ACTION: Jeremy]
Computing Committee requested easy access
to information about updates to packages. We will provide a mailing
list initially and this will probably be gated into a newsgroup.
[ACTION: Jeremy]
We will need a eduni.inf news
hierarchy. This needs to be requested from EUCS.
[ACTION: Neil]
