Hi Mike,
Thank you for the report, especially the time that it happened so I was 
able to correlate it with what happened..
You were correct.  Sometime around 7:00pm CST (5pm PST) our backend, 
which is /disk/disk4, had some problems and was up and down several 
times until we got it stable a little bit before 11:00pm.
My thanks go to Fermilab's Central Services department, and the vendor 
working with them.  From the sounds of things, this could have been a 
long drawn-out problem, but because everyone was on top of things 
working together, it was resolved relatively fast.
Thanks
Troy Dawson

Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks.  I had a "yum update" die right in the middle of the 
> operation at roughly 5pm PST today, 02 March 2007.  I tried to connect 
> "by hand" via FTP and got the appended results.  Actually, I couldn't cd 
> to ANY of the subdirectories under "linux".  Maybe a problem with disk4?
> 
>                     - Mike
> 
> 
> # ftp ftp.scientificlinux.org
> Connected to linux21.fnal.gov.
> 220 Welcome to Scientific Linux distribution server.
> 530 Please login with USER and PASS.
> 530 Please login with USER and PASS.
> KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
> Name (ftp.scientificlinux.org:root): ftp
> 331 Please specify the password.
> Password:
> 230 Login successful.
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files.
> ftp> cd linux
> 250 Directory successfully changed.
> ftp> pwd
> 257 "/linux"
> ftp> ls
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (131,225,110,41,238,28)
> 150 Here comes the directory listing.
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0              25 Jul 05  2006 extra -> 
> ../disk/disk4/linux/extra
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0              25 Jul 05  2006 fermi -> 
> ../disk/disk4/linux/fermi
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0              26 Jul 05  2006 legacy -> 
> ../disk/disk4/linux/legacy
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0              26 Jul 05  2006 redhat -> 
> ../disk/disk4/linux/redhat
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 0        0              30 Jul 05  2006 scientific -> 
> ../disk/disk4/linux/scientific
> 226 Directory send OK.
> ftp> cd scientific
> 550 Failed to change directory.
> 


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