CELS Virtual Helpdesk
CELS Shared Services Systems Group
From 11:17AM until just before Noon, we had a sever name server problem that resulted in many of our machines, including our mail server, appearing as “unknown” to internet name lookups. This would have resulted in any mail delivered during that p…
I found that the proxy tweaks from the other day needed a big more refinement. Now, instead of exempting ftp from the proxy, we’re simply only including http. This allows other links (like feed:) to work well. New proxy configuration is after the …
Last night I made a change to the browser proxy autoconfiguration script to make it more user friendly. Now, it will bypass the proxy for FTP links, since we never intended for it to proxy FTP, and will automatically fall back to using no proxy if…
We have a (probably minor) disk error on one of our mail relay servers. It’s a small enough problem that we’re comfortable waiting to fix it, but serious enough that we want to get it soon. So we’ll be performing some maintenance on the affected m…
Ken Raffenetti, our newest member of the group, has spent a significant amount of time developing and updating Hostbase. It’s now far more robust and more suited to the needs of the group for its administration tasks. However, we realize that our …
We’re still working our way through the new wireless, finding and fixing problems. One that has reared its head is that it does not play nice with Parallels. Well, more to the point, it doesn’t play well with multiple IP addresses for a single wir…
We’re at the end of day two of the new wireless network. First up, I want to thank all our users for being so understanding as we work through the kinks that weren’t able to be found in our initial testing. Seriously, you are a fantastic bunch of …
This short update will detail some important changes hitting the environment, plus highlight a project from the past year you may not have known about. Wireless Upgrade, Wednesday January 31. You may have noticed some nifty gadgetry on the ceiling…
I have a new Dispatch I’m preparing, but wanted to get this out as soon as possible. Beth Cerny-Patino is joining Argonne today as our new Web Developer. She’ll be working on the web presences for MCS, the CI and other CLS related sites. Previousl…
Can you believe it’s been two months since the last dispatch? Wow, where did the time go? This dispatch, our focus is on some minor updates made in the environment, a hint on how to stay abreast of changes we make, answering some questions on the …
