News

Hardy will be shut down at 5:00pm to upgrade it's operating system from Redhat 6.0 to Redhat 6.1. Expect an hour or two of downtime for this upgrade.
Hopefully this will alleviate the problems with the kernel process limit and open file limit on hardy. Depending on the results of the upgrade there may be a reboot to install a new kernel at 5pm on Thursday, April 13. This will involve a very brief downtime...half an hour or less.

Check the delete list to find out what accounts are scheduled for deletion.

As the current PC's in the MLRC lab have reached the end of their life cycle and are being replaced, we'll be able to replace some of the grad and lecture office machines this summer.
Backup system setup;our backup system will be streamlined to write remote backups to our tape library

2000/03/23-Two attempts were made to install a new kernel on hardy in hopes of alleviating the problems we've experienced with the simultaneous process limit and the open files limit. Both attempts resulted in kernel panic messages upon rebooting.
2000/03/13-Our netware servers were shutdown. Their functionality was recreated via a samba share from hardy. PC's are now using hardy for print serving.
2000/03/07-The kernel on hardy was rebuilt with an increase in the NR_TASKS variable in tasks.h. This was done to alleviate the system reaching it's limit for processes and open files.
X-mas 1999-All users on papa were migrated to hardy. Hardy takes over's papas functionalilty as the main departmental Unix server.
1999/11/03-A Sun Microsystems engineer did a Y2K prom update on papa
1999/11/02-The operating system on minkowski was upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to RedHat 6.0
1999/05/17Mail was upgraded to a pop/pop3 server. Expect an interruption in mail service on Monday beginning at 5 pm.
1999/03/13-The 139.78.112 subnet was reconfigured. The default router is now 139.78.115.254 and our subnet mask is 255.255.252.0.

1999/02/22-Departmental PC's in the front office and 421 were found to be infected with the Microsoft Word groov.b virus. The virus was removed and updated copies of Norton's AntiVirus were installed.
1999/02/15-New kernel, 2.0.36, installed on mail replacing the old 2.0.34 kernel. Mail, papa, www, and print were all connected to an ethernet surge protector. Mail, www, and print were connected to a UPS.
1999/02/04-All mail accounts that were still using the generic password have been deactivated.
1999/02/02-Long live the color X-terminals! We have new ethernet cards and net surge protectors for the color X-terminals in the terminal room (421). They will be installed today and the color X-terminals will be useable again. Please bear with the mess during installation.
Papa's Account Delete List for 1999/02/02

1999/01/27-Papa rebooted to remove lingering zombie processes. Reboot was sucessful.
Papa's Account Delete List for 1999/01/18

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