Re: FW: Disk 17/18 server is down

[Jure Skvarc <jure.skvarc@ijs.si>]

Rob

The offer of your friend is very generous and looks very useful for the
soon-to-come huge dataflow from Mark IV's.  Could he, for beginning, make a a
mirror of TASS WWW pages and of the existing database?  I think this would be a
good test for much of the software which needs to be installed.

				Jure Skvarc

"Creager, Robert S" wrote:
> 
> Hmm, didn't make it the first time.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Creager, Robert S
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:09 AM
> To: TASS
> Cc: Kostraba, John R
> Subject: RE: Disk 17/18 server is down
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have a friend who has a satellite connection (100k upstream, 600k
> downstream) that he is willing to make available.  On his end, he has a dual
> 600Mhz PentIII Xenon system, and can manage 20 SCSI disks without problem.
> He'd be willing to open up the box for our use, and up to about 40Gb of disk
> space.  After that, he'd like some more disks :-)
> 
> Would this provide what is required for playing around?
> 
> Other than a http (with cgi and mod_perl), database, ftp, and ssh, what
> services would people want?
> 
> He's also willing to take a box which is set up and forward services to that
> if we want.
> 
> Later,
> Rob
>