Matthew W. L. Phelps  	  Apr 22 1993, 6:21 am     show options
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 13:57:41 GMT
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Subject: aragorn.andrew.cmu.edu new ftp site also ???
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I saw a note that aragorn.andrew.cmu.edu is the new ICS server. Is this also
the ftp site? I just tried to log in as anonymous, but I get "Can't set guest
privileges."

BTW, a few weeks ago I posted asking abort the *.ARJ archive format. Thanks to
those who replied, a copy of the archiver is/will be in the Tools directory (I
forget the full pathname) on {valkyries|aragorn}.andrew.cmu.edu.

        Matthew W. L. Phelps            mphe...@amama.enet.dec.com
        Digital Equipment Corp.         "My stuff, not DEC's"

        Transaction Processing Systems Engineering, Littleton, MA, USA

	
John Anthony Chanak 	  Apr 22 1993, 11:31 pm     show options
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From: John Anthony Chanak <j...@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> - Find messages by this author
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 02:13:43 -0400
Local: Thurs, Apr 22 1993 11:13 pm
Subject: Re: aragorn.andrew.cmu.edu new ftp site also ???
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Since the real valkryies machine is away at a networking conference,
we've been trying to do the best we can with the machines we have
available (which have even included our personal machines in our dorm
rooms...).  Do to resource limitations, we are not able to offer ftp
service from these spare machines, but we have attempted to keep the
chess server up and running.  Since we have extensively tuned the real
valkyries server environment over the last year, its setup is much more
stable than the ad-hoc systems we've patched together these last few
days.   We're sorry that service has been sporadic, but you can expect
it to return to normal when the real valkyries returns in a few days.

Note that what you see as "valkyries" right now is just a different
machine that has stolen valkyries's IP address so people don't go
looking all over the place for the chess server.  You should be able to
log in to valkyries port 5000 to at least find out where to play chess.

-John