CELS Virtual Helpdesk
CELS Shared Services Systems Group
There is a critical bug on our AIX NFS servers (gorilla, kong and magilla) serving MCS home directories and MCS project data. This bug is encountered only on our newest linux desktops, a list of which appears at the bottom of this note. Specifical…
During a cooling emergency in February, we turned off the remaining racks of Chiba City, and they haven’t been turned on since. Power, cooling and space requirements in the machine room necessitate that we bid farewell to our first big cluster. Th…
The building 221 power outage scheduled for this Saturday is off. It should be noted, however, that it is still a weekend-long maintenance window for CIS services, and we in MCS have some scheduled changes we’ll still be doing on our network and s…
Hi, folks. We’ve known this might be a possibility but the dates and times have just ben nailed down, so it’s time to announce it. The electrical power for Building 221 will be shut off on Saturday, May 19, 2007 while the substation for the buildi…
There’s a nasty Windows exploit going around. Microsoft has finally released a patch for it, and I strongly encourage every Windows user to make sure your computer (both work and home) is up to date. You can accomplish this by visiting http://wind…
We’ve been live with the new web site for a week now, and we’ve been filling in the missing pieces as they’re reported. I want to thank you all for your patience as we get up to speed on this, and I also want to thank Beth for her great work on th…
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…
