Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!tim
From: tim@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: dciem
Message-ID: <1213@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 21 Nov 88 13:26:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: dretor.1213
References: <1988Nov16.182112.15635@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: tim@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmantal Medicine
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In a recent article henry@utzoo (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In case anyone who cares isn't aware of it, "dciem" seems to be in the
>throes of another of its occasional bouts of illness.  Expect mail going
>to/from/through dciem to be delayed.

We seem to be up "for good" now. We did have a couple of weeks where the
system went down early in the week and our hardware folks didn't get around
to doing anything about it until near the end of the week (since the "dciem"
system will be going out of service as soon as we can get equivalent
functionality on our "new" computer, hardware folks don't put a high
priority on fixing it - nobody uses it except for other UUCP accounts for
news and mail transfer.) The problem seemed to be a couple of bad memory
boards (which gave us parity errors until we disabled the use of the boards.)
It was more than just a stuck bit, though. The boards sucked enough juice to
eventually trip the breaker on the memory power supply. These boards have now
been removed from the system so we *should* be OK now.

>Sendmail is a bug,             |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>not a feature.                 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

Hear! Hear!
-- 
	Tim Pointing, DCIEM
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