[TriLUG] Pilot Upgrade Sunday evening

[Brian Henning via TriLUG]

Aaron!  Long time no squeak!  I hope you are still thriving.

ASJ > To the best of my knowledge, these names are all Farscape references, but that's the extent of my knowledge about Farscape.

Indeed, those are all Farscape names:

Moya -> Biomechanical ship
Talon -> Moya's offspring, another biomech ship
Pilot -> Symbiotic pilot creature aboard Moya
Dargo -> Humanoid crewmember aboard Moya

So there are some clear applications of Farscape lore to the servers.  Always fun to see these things. 😊

At one prior employment, I named all the nodes after Metroid Prime creatures.

Cheers,
-Brian


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From: TriLUG <trilug-bounces+bhenning=pineresearch.com at trilug.org> On Behalf Of Aaron Joyner via TriLUG
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:28 PM
To: Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com>; Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Pilot Upgrade Sunday evening

I didn't know the answer to either of Brian's questions off hand, but I had fun grubbing around in my email history to try to see what I could recall.

When I was the sysadmin in roughly 2004-2005, I inherited two servers, Moya and Dargo.  It's my understanding they were built mostly by Tanner Lovelace (the previous SysAdmin), with some help from Jeremy Portzer (and maybe Jason Tower)?  I learned LDAP and Kerberos by fire while maintaining these machines.  During my tenure, we upgraded Moya to new hardware and applied an OS update by setting up a second server, named Talon, migrating all the services to it, then renaming the new server to Moya.  We repeated the process with Dargo.

It seems that in roughly April of 2007, a combination of Cristobal Palmer, Kevin Otte, and the ever-present Tanner replaced Dargo with a new server, named Pilot.  It took quite a lot of wrangling at SunGuard (the colo provider where they lived at the time).  :)  I think that is when the name Pilot came into existence, but it seems to have been a physical server, rather than a VM, in its initial incarnation.

As late as 2009, it seems to have still been physical hardware, based on the occasional reboot notifications to the sys@ list.  (That's roughly when I stopped getting mail to that list.)

Some Googling around of the main archives uncovers that Pilot moved into a VM in 2015, apparently under the direction of Bill Farrow:
https://trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20150427/073817.html

To the best of my knowledge, these names are all Farscape references, but that's the extent of my knowledge about Farscape.

Your local archive archeologist,
Aaron S. Joyner


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:49 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG < trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:36:38PM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group 
> discussion list wrote:
> > On 11/20/19 2:18 PM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> > >Incidentally, for those who do not know, Pilot is a VM on the host 
> > >machine Moya.
> > >
> >
> > From the peanut gallery:  How long has Pilot been a VM on Moya?  Has
> Pilot
> > always been called Pilot for the Farscape reference?
>
> Good question.
>
> Yes, I saw that, too.
>
> I would look to another Brian for that answer.
>
>
> Brian
>
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