February 26 2013
Lab machine reboot
The CS Lab Linux boxes will be rebooted at 5am Thursday Feb 28th.
August 22 2011
Lab machine migration
The CS ICLs are being migrated to a new OS over the break. Although we will attempt to keep the interruptions down, be aware that at times there will be machines down. Ideally the work will be done before Orientation.
March 10 2011
Password change issue on Ubuntu machines
We are aware of a problem changing passwords on the ubuntu machines. Please use cspasswd on the Solaris machines to change your password.
March 2 2011
System maintenance scheduled.
Computer Science is scheduling a system upgrade on Wednesday March 2nd. Computing services will be unavailable until after noon. Lab machines may be down longer since servers will be a priority.
Sept 24 2010
ICL3 down
Until further notice the linux machines in ICL3 and glados will be offline while we work through a system problem.
May 30 2010
System maintenance scheduled.
Computer Science is scheduling a system upgrade on Sunday May30th. Computing services will be unavailable until Monday May 31st.
May 26 2010
Power outage scheduled.
RIT has a scheduled power outage from 5PM to 7AM on Wednesday May 26th. The CS Systems will be shut down starting at 3PM on Wednesday and will be restored by 10AM Thursday morning.
Apr 24 2010
Power outage scheduled.
RIT has a scheduled power outage from 3AM to 9AM on Sunday Apr 25th. The CS Systems will be shut down starting at 10PM on Saturday evening (Apr 24th), and will be restored by 10AM on Sunday morning.
Mar 5 2010
IMAP resources have been resolved. However there is a change to how IMAP folder subscriptions is done.
Users are urged to move folders they want to subscribe to into ~/mail/, and then resubscribing. If there are a LOT of them, you may get away with moving ~/.subscriptions to ~/mail/.subscriptions, but you will still need to move the files/folders to ~/mail/ for it to work.
Feb 24 2010
System Downtime and upgrades over the Spring Break.
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Monday thru Wednesday
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Solaris machines will be patched and restarted
Solaris machines will have firefox 3.5.6 installed
Solaris machines will have thunderbird 3.0.1 installed
OSX machines will be reimaged (patches and software updates)
OSX machines will no longer be remotely accessible via SSH
Windows machines will be reimaged (patches and software updates)
This will include the thug cluster, tardis cluster, para* machines, holly, hilly and queeg.
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Tuesday
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tardis cluster will be down to move hardware around server room
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Thursday
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Servers will be down for patching
Mailhost will have RAID replaced
Mailhost will update IMAP and POP services
Faculty machines will be patched
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Friday
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Anything not finished from Mon-Thur will be wrapped up
Feb 18 2010
ssh to the macs will be disabled over the spring break. It's enabling over the winter term was an oversight.
Dec 14 2009
Holly, hilly, parasite and paradise are back online.
Dec 13 2009
Due to a power failure in the server room the machines holly, hilly, parasite and paradise are off-line. Monday we will be able to determine what has happened and how long until they are back on-line.
Nov 23-27 2009
System Maintenance during break
During the break, the CS Solaris machines will be patched and updated. There will be some times where machines are unavailable. Lab computers will be patched over the course of Monday & Tuesday Nov 23rd&24th. Mail, web, and file service will be unavailable Wednesday afternoon (Nov 25th) when servers and faculty machines will be patched. Any system work that was not completed will require further outages on Friday Nov 27th.
Sept 22 2009
ICL3 closed today from 4pm until 9pm
ICL3 will be closed today from 4pm until 9pm for the ACM programming contest
