Edict from Bob:
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舌 (shita)

Tongue is dead. Long live tongue!

Tongue has been replaced by 舌: a 2U rackmount box: a VA FullOn 2250 with more disk, more RAM, and a more powerful CPU.
舌 (shita) is Japanese for ``tongue'' (or so I am told). Ain't I clever? Unless pronouncing it shit-a amuses you, you should probably pronounce it sh-ta. The `i' is almost not pronounced (at least according to the one dude I have run across who claims to know such things).

tongue is undead

I pulled tongue from the co-lo rack on the morning of Sep 10th. Tongue is now in my house. The internet can not reach it, but I have the ability to copy files off of it up to 舌, but if my cable modem is malfunctioning (thank you, Atlanta Broadband) then all I have is a modem.

Migration

mailing lists

Some unused mailing lists did not get transferred to 舌. If this is a problem, I can remedy that.

user/mail accounts

You will need to apply for an account on 舌. Your username will stay the same. The only remote access option is SSH. The only upload option is SCP. (WinSCP is a fabulous SCP interface for Windows).

mail access

Mail is accessible via SSL IMAP.

domains

舌 is serving DNS for all pfrog primary domains. I have updated my domains. Some of the vassals have not yet updated theirs. They need to hurry up. At some point I will rig it to secondary all the domains for which tongue is currently a secondary.

舌 has tongue's old IP address in addition to its own. As a result, any DNS records that refer to tongue will talk to 舌 until I give up that IP. I just need to arrange to secondary the domains I know about (and the domains I do not know about are screwed. NetworkSolutions are a bunch of incompetent goat-fuckers).

If you use tongue for a secondary, you will have to change your name servers at your registrar to add ns2.purplefrog.com. If you are still referring to tongue, you are behind the times.

non grata

FTP upload and telnet will not be available. If you are incapable of SSH and SCP, you will not be able to access an account on 舌.

quality of service

There is no quality of service guarantee. If it works, swell. If it does not, you get to call me and complain. If you need more reliable service than this, you should pay a commercial outfit that pays people to care. (It is not that I do not care. It is just that I am not paid to care).

backup strategy

The backup strategy is that users keep copies of anything important on their personal machines. If your stuff gets deleted by hard drive failure, cracker attack, or fat-fingered sysadminning, you are responsible for restoring it.

entitlement

You may ask yourself ``Where is that large automobile?'' I can not help you there.

But if you ask yourself `` Am I entitled to an account on 舌 ?'' Then I can give you a clue.

Purple Frog ceased corporate operations years ago. I now operate it as a private club. The current club officers are:

Robert Forsman <thoth@purplefrog.com>Grand Master of Heavy Falling Objects, sysadmin
重い下る事の壮大なマスター
Michael Murphy God of Music
Michael Wohlgemuth Prime Minister of Sinister
Mark Farone 乱 Engineer.
Andy Wilcox Emeritus Maximus
Eric Johnson Top Dog

Any of these people can sponsor you. They also have friends who can sponsor you. They may charge you money for their services. That is kosher.

Contact your benefactor ASAP and inform him that you wish to transfer your account to 舌. He will notify me, and we'll get the ball rolling.

Getting the ball rolling

The first step is for you to send us an SSH public key. On unix systems, these are stored in ~/.ssh/identity.pub, id_rsa.pub, or id_dsa.pub (depending on which type of key you have).

Once we have created your account and installed your key, you should be able to log into your 舌 account. Then you should scp your data from tongue to shita. After the web server has been activated, check it over to make sure everything came across OK. It is likely there will be some problems hiding in corners.

keys to the safety deposit llama:

I spent way too much time looking up the unicode.