Re: grind ftp site

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <4fmkpa$m5m@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Steven Nelson <snelson@news.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>From article <4flvvj$dec@eddore.myrias.com>, by gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade):
>> Ok, we've heard the unfortunate news about caltech, but what the
>> hell is up with the grind site lately?  I haven't been able to get
>> the ftp ls to work for a while now, and when I tried uploading
>> some files I got a "read-only filesystem" error.
>> 
>
>Hell has nothing to do with grind, yet ;-)  The grind machine is being
>replaced.  The replacement (liquefy) has no room (physical mounting bay)
>for the apple2 drive.  The apple2 drive is being moved to a different
>machine (ground) which has a mounting bay, and is more compatible with
>the grind machine.  The apple2 drive needed to be reformatted for a
>differnet block-size (or something?), so the files were copied to another
>drive and mounted read-only so they wouldn't change during the file
>copy and restore.  There will be one more outage when the file subsytem is
>renamed (but I don't know what that means access-wise).
>
>If grind, isn't working.  Try ground.isca.uiowa.edu.  I was able to
>save, mv, cp, and rm files today on ground, so I assume it is working.
>I did a telnet session OK, but didn't try anonymous ftp.  (I did do
>ftp to my account, so ftp is working, but I didn't try the file subsystem.)
>
>Clear as mud, but that is what the heck is up with grind lately.
>
>I did put NinjaForce's Anime util on ground.isca, even though the 
>archive is so 'stupidly organized' that Jesse Blue didn't want it there. :-)
>It will be deleted if he requests it though.
>
Considering that the archive he wanted it on was hard to access when it 
was available, and that Grind usually could be accessed, who cares how 
well it's organized?  If you can't get to it, organization doesn't help 
in any way!

Don't delete anything, even if he doesn't like it!  Rather, let him do the
organizing!  Or at least let you know how he thinks you should have it
organized.

I used to manage VAX systems.  It seems like every user has their own 
preference as to how it should be done.  I usually ignored all of them 
and made it efficient.  You can't please everybody.

For those who wonder why I am not managing VAX systems today, it's because
of age discrimination! 

John

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