The following are fixes made to the new Barney/Betty systems as part of the August 2001 migration. If you encounter problems with something, please let me know at and I will try to resolve it as quickly as possible. I'll also try and post all fixes here for people to see. System management problems and resolutions won't be listed here, only things that affect end users.

9/13/01 - Anonymous FTP from downloads page fails

The path changed when we migrated from the FTP software on HPUX to the version on Linux. Updated the download page to reflect the slight change in the path.

08/30/01 - Telnet/IMAP/POP sessions fail under moderate load on Barney. SSH clients work normally.

There was a problem in the xinetd daemon officially supported in RedHat Linux 7.1 distribution (xinetd 2.3.0) that caused temporary failures in connections using xinetd. Upgrading to xinetd-2.3.3 appears to have corrected the problem (zero errors from 8/30/01 to 9/2/01).

08/21/01 - Terminal type not being autodetected properly on Barney. Pine fails to load.

We used a program on the old Barney (and the current Betty) called qterm to auto-detect and set the TERM variable. With Linux (the new Barney), this is built into the /etc/bashrc login script but the default terminal type was "unknown". Added code to /etc/bashrc to force the TERM variable to "vt100" if it is either unset or set to "unknown". This provides the same functionality as qterm on HPUX. The downside to doing this is if the program that a user is using to connect to Barney isn't set to vt100 or better is that they will run into problems with programs like Pine. This is usually not the case though so it is an acceptable solution.

08/18/01 - http://barney.gonzaga.edu/tech/listrequest.html cgi script broken (/cgi-bin/cgiemail)

The cgi script "cgiemail" is a binary executable, not a shell script and was compiled for HPUX. Downloaded source for new version of "cgiemail" and compiled for Linux. New script tested out properly.

08/17/01 - Web server doesn't allow listing files in "public_html" if there isn't an index.* file

Altered settings in httpd.conf to allow viewing of files in user's public_html directories. httpd.conf now essentially matches the httpd.conf file on the previous Barney system.