The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have some software updates applied today (Wednesday afternoon, April 6, 2011) which will require rebooting. 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 without 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 to be back up by 5:00pm.
Updated firefox, thunderbird, and flash-plugin
March 25, 2011 by
The thunderbird, firefox, and flash-plugin packages on coxeter were updated this morning.
More automatic email filtering
March 16, 2011 by
The email aliases for “faculty” and “consult” are often abused by outsiders to send spam. As of late yesterday a new filter was added which will automatically discard any email that includes those aliases unless it comes from (approximately) a UofT address. Most of such spam was automatically discarded (because of our default autodelete settings) by our spam filter in any case, and almost all of the rest was sent to the SuspectedSpam folder (even at our low aggressiveness setting), but this should help with the few, but annoying, spam emails that have gotten through.
If you manage a mailing list and would benefit from similar automatic deletion please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu.
Server updates on 2011mar09 were successful
March 9, 2011 by
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates. The updates went a little more quickly than expected.
Software updates on Wednesday March 9, 2011
March 3, 2011 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have some software updates applied next Wednesday afternoon (March 9, 2011) which will require rebooting. 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 without 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 to be back up by 5:15pm.
WordPress updated to latest version (3.1)
February 25, 2011 by
The departmental blogging server, blog.math.toronto.edu, has been upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (3.1).
The lw3 printer (in BA6200) has been replaced
February 25, 2011 by
The lw3 printer (in BA6200) was replaced last week and is working properly. It is the same model as lw2 but is somewhat newer.
The lw3 printer (in BA6200) will be replaced
February 9, 2011 by
The lw3 printer (in BA6200) has been temporarily replaced by an older model while we await its replacement (in approximately two weeks).
It is highly recommended that you use the lw2 printer (in the mailroom, BA6290A) if you have any important printing, since that printer is much more reliable.
Server updates on 2011jan19 were successful
January 19, 2011 by
The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates. coxeter took a little longer (less than 10 minutes longer) than usual to finish since there were a large number of updates.
Software updates on Wednesday January 19, 2011
January 18, 2011 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon (January 19, 2011) which will require rebooting. Since many other 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 without 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 to be back up by 5pm.
