I thought you might be interested in seeing how "well"
822+826 is going!

Subject: "Advanced" Power Management (APM)

(This message is being sent to all CPSC 822/826 students)

I arrived this morning to find netlab2,3,5,6 ALL unreachable
over the net. When I began to restart networking, I found
that they had all failed at exactly the same time: roughly
11:45 pm last night. Furthermore, I found that in all cases
the failure was precipitated by loss of signal from the
switch.  So I logged into the switch and not-so-surprisingly
the switch says it was rebooted at about midnight last
night.

Unlike netlab2,3,5,6, netlab4 WAS up this am.  However,
its logs indicated that it <rebooted> about midnight last
night although there was no evidence of activity on the
system before the reboot.  Now it turns out that netlab4,
the 822 machine shemp, and the 8285 switch just so happen
to be plugged into the same power strip. Noting this,
an inspection of shemp's logs also not-so-surprisingly
indicated a reboot around midnight.  Unlike the netlab4
case, the logs on shemp indicated activity WAS occuring
at the time of the reboot.  This leads me to believe
the the operators of shemp either

(1) inadvertently disconnected the power as a result
    of an extreme attack of restless leg syndrome.

or (far worse)

(2) failing to grasp the fact that they would also
    off/on the 8285  and netlab4  decided a handy way
    to reboot a hung system would be to off/on the
    power strip...

Moral of the story: (repeated for the n'th time for 826 students)

Please remember that this is a shared facility and try
to take care to ensure that your actions don't inadvertently
impact the ability of other students to complete assigned
work.

Thank you,
the mgmt.