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Android Security Warning

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Please see Matt’s note below on a security vulnerability that affects Android users. Here’s the short version – there’s an issue that allows applications to masquerade as trusted apps. Google has identified the issue and is pushing out a fix. The fix is not there yet, and when it gets there will be dependent on …

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Web and FTP directories read/write again

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We migrated the sites to the new server and re-exported the data. You should be able to read/write to these directories again. We’re spending the next couple of days looking for potential fallout from the move, so please let us know if something isn’t behaving as expected.

Web and FTP directories are temporarily read-only

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The disk that serves our FTP and MCS websites hosted in MCS (as opposed to the main MCS Drupal website hosted on the Argonne web server) has developed an error that was causing the server to crash. We’ve set the disk to be read-only while we sync the data to a new disk. We’ll send …

Emergency server reboot complete

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Things should be back to normal. Thanks!

Emergency server reboot

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’ve encountered a problem that requires an unscheduled reboot of one of our primary virtual machine servers. This reboot will take out some core services briefly. Until things come back, many websites, git repos, mailing lists, and other services will not respond correctly. I’ll send an update when it’s resolved.

Network connectivity issues affecting Argonne

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

There are networking issues affecting most of Argonne right now. CIS is aware and are working on it. We’ll send a notice when we know more.

Update: Confluence server (collab.mcs.anl.gov) is back

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

And we’re back. Things should be at the pre-upgrade state in terms of functionality. We’ll do some more dry runs on the upgrade before attempting again. Thanks for your patience.

Update: Confluence server (collab.mcs.anl.gov) mostly back

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The server is mostly back — there are some aesthetic issues we’re still ironing out, but main functionality should be there for everyone. Will send more when things are closer to done, but you can feel free to use it again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update Confluence Upgrade – Tuesday May 20th

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The update has hit an unforeseen snag. We’re working on bringing things back, but will probably be another couple of hours. We’ll send an update when there’s more.

Confluence Upgrade – Tuesday May 20th

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

All, We will be performing maintenance on our Confluence server tomorrow, May 20th at 8AM. We will also be upgrading the installation to the latest version. We expect downtime to be no more than 15-30 minutes. If you have any questions or if this outage window will cause any problems for you, please let us …

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