id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 559 Cluster machines should call for help jdreed "A cluster machine that is sad (i.e. because it downgraded itself to -workstation) should know enough to call for help. A possible method is that the installer drops an unpackaged initscript somewhere that, if debathena-cluster is not installed, displays a single X window that says ""This workstation is temporarily out of service, please contact hotline@mit.edu"". The window could also do more awesome things,like prompt the user to click a button to hackboot into PXE and reinstall, or something else. But at the very least, it should advertise its brokenness." defect closed low The Distant Future -- fixed