mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) (05/14/87)
The order has come down from up high: over the next week, some
serious reconfiguration will occur with cbosgd and cbatt. The
3B2/400 currently known as cbatt will be renamed cbosgd and will
take over the phone lines and most of the functionality of the
VAX 11/750 currently known as cbosgd. The name cbatt will become
dormant, although it is likely it will be assigned to a new machine
sometime in the next several months which would take over these
functions.
The net effect of this on all of you is that cbatt will go away
in a few days, and cbosgd will be in the backbone in its place.
No users will be on cbosgd, but hopefully all their mail will be
forwarded to the 750.
System administrators please make the following changes immediately:
(1) Add "-dcbatt" to the flags on your pathalias command line and rerun
pathalias. This should avoid routing mail through cbatt.
(2) Edit /usr/lib/news/mailpaths; if it mentions cbatt anywhere, change
this to cbosgd or to some other backbone host.
If you are a UUCP neighbor of cbosgd, the phone numbers are expected to
stay the same, but you'll be talking to a new machine, so beware.
If you are a UUCP neighbor of cbatt, you might as well remove it from
your L.sys or systems file, unless you are also a netnews neighbor.
If you are a netnews neighbor of cbosgd, your feed will be moved to
cbosgd (e.g. it will stay on the same machine.) I'll contact you all
directly to work out the details, since we'll have to time this.
If you are a user on cbosgd, stay tuned; your login will stay on the
750, but if you aren't in our department, you've probably already gotten
paperwork that is relevant.
Problems, mail me at cbosgd!mark (if it works) or call me at (614) 860-4276.
Mark