Today the drpmsync server again gave me a hint that it is quite useful to backup everything before working with a new tool. After long time syncing the repository the server was stopped and thus my client as well. After the client was restarted, it started to remove all files in my repository. Fortunately I have a policy manager running that stopped the client after some hundred deleted files. I found that the server was misconfigured and did not allow access to the data directory which made the client think that there is an empty repository on the server side and thus started to delete everything on the client side instead of doing nothing because of the error message received from the server. After learning about this annoying behaviour I added another rule to the policy manager to backup the whole destination directory before each drpmsync call.
Many students seem to be rather confused when searching for course rooms because it happens quite often during the last days that they appear at our department searching for a course room that is located in a completely different building. It seems that we should invent a course in the first semester on how to read street signs that announce the name of a street. Today a group appeard again that claimed that their seminar will take place at our building in the room C0.14. After some effort I managed to convince them that although there is always a shortage in course rooms it is quite unlikely that they do seminars nowadays in the ladies' toilet.
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