There will be a complete network outage in PGB (45 St. George Street) starting on Tuesday August 30, 2016 morning which could last up to two days, in order to allow the contractor to replace a broken network cabinet. It is possible that things will be back up by the end of the day on Tuesday. The outage includes all wired and UofT wireless connections in that building.
new security certificate for UofT wireless access
August 16, 2016 by
The UofT wireless access security certificate has been updated today, Tuesday, August 16, 2016.
From: http://main.its.utoronto.ca/news/security-update-for-wireless/
Please be advised that ITS will be renewing the security certificate for University’s wireless authentication server on Tuesday, August 16th.
What does this mean for wireless users?
After this update, wireless users will be prompted to accept or verify the new security certificate the first time they attempt to reconnect to the UofT or eduroam networks. Once the new certificate has been accepted, the wireless device will save the setting and connect automatically thereafter.
For campus wireless access information, please visit the Information Common website.
new lwcam3 printer in PGB Room 301
August 16, 2016 by
A Xerox Phaser 4510 printer has been installed in PGB (at 45 St. George Street) in Room 301. It can be accessed with (on coxeter):
Print -Plwcam3 file-to-be-printed
Please type Print with no arguments on coxeter for more details about printing.
SquirrelMail and Roundcube Webmail Servers
July 29, 2016 by
There were a few smaller issues with SquirrelMail that were discovered and fixed earlier this week including a security token expiration problem (we have configured the program to generate a new key for each access, but they expire after two days, so please do not Compose a single message for more than that time).
In order to have another webmail choice for people in case there are any further problems with SquirrelMail we now have a second, unsupported, webmail server on our system, Roundcube. Roundcube has some advantages (it looks nice, it has a mobile interface, it is newer, etc.) and some disadvantages (address books would have to be recreated, some icons can be poorly rendered, some text may be partially obscured, refreshing large folders can result in constant refreshing, etc.), however for most users it seems to work reasonably well.
Squirrelmail updated
July 26, 2016 by
The squirrelmail webmail server for departmental email was updated this morning and it appears to be functioning well. Please let requests@math.toronto.edu know if you observe any problems with this update.
Squirrelmail update scheduled for Tue July 26, 2016 at 10:30am
July 25, 2016 by
The squirrelmail webmail server for departmental email will be updated starting on Tuesday July 26, 2016 at 10:30am. It should be accessible by 11am.
This update fixes a problem where replying/forwarding squirrelmail messages did not always include the original message in the body of the new message.
Other email clients such as pine and thunderbird will not be affected by this squirrelmail outage.
Server updates on 2016jul20 were successful
July 20, 2016 by
The departmental servers appear to mostly be working fine after the updates.
There is an issue with Squirrelmail and “quoted-printable” messages. We are currently investigating this.
Updates at 3:45pm on Wednesday July 20, 2016
July 19, 2016 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, July 20, 2016 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 3:45pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 4:30pm.
Email is intermittently disconnecting when busy
July 13, 2016 by
We are aware of a problem where the email system stops allowing connections when it gets busy. We are investigating this.
