Re: new dolphin+puma alive

[Frederick Gray <Frederick.Gray@pomona.edu>]

Hi, Claude,

Thanks very much getting our barrack back into a hacker-free state.   
One implication of the dolphin disk crash is that some work will be  
required to make the DAQ system functional again before the next run,  
since dolphin was the file server for the frontend VME CPUs.  Backups  
exist of most things, but they are not all completely up to date.   
So, please do not throw away the old disk yet.  Is it your  
understanding that it is physically damaged (e.g. motor doesn't spin)?

Thanks,

-- Fred

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Frederick Gray, Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA
Frederick.Gray@pomona.edu / phone: 909-607-9795 / fax: 909-621-8463
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On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, claude petitjean wrote:

> Dear Fred and Brendan,
>
> we had some problems this week to get dolphin (or at least its home  
> dirs) back
> to operation. It turned out that the hard disk seems to be damaged  
> and cannot
> easily be recovered.
>
> So I have created a new dolphin by mounting a new 200GB IDE hard  
> disk with
> the psi linux system installed on it. A list of  distinguished  
> scientists, namely:
>
> banks, clayton, gray, kammel, kiburg, lauss,petitjean, winter
>
> have access to it as afs users. More users can be added, but they must
> of course have an afs account at psi.
>
> From dolphin, puma can be accessed as in the past and used again.  
> The puma
> passwords were not yet changed, except the root. For root I took  
> the new
> password #2 created during the unblinding meeting.
>
> Valery has checked through puma for suspicious traces of the  
> hacker, but
> could not find any of those traces imposed on old dolphin. But he  
> noted that
> there are a lot of changes of system files since creation of the  
> system. (They
> may have been made much earlier.) Therefore Fred and/or Brendan should
> also scan through the puma system for suspicious changes.
>
> Please, check whether the new dolphin-puma system can be used again  
> for analysis.
> In case of problems, indicate to us what you need more, also how  
> severe the
> loss of the old-dolphin files is. (The hd still exists.)
>
> If you find things ok, we will also enable lion. The lion hard  isk  
> is mounted in my
> newly bought system, since Dan Webber exchanged the hd's. I have  
> changed
> the old root pw of lion to our new #3 pw, but you cannot access it  
> yet.
>
> Thats all for now. I hope you can start analysis again.
>
> Good luck and best regards
>
> Claude

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