The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during the afternoon tomorrow (September 1, 2010) 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 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 so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back to be back up by 5pm.
Software updates on Wednesday August 25, 2010
August 24, 2010 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during the afternoon tomorrow (August 25, 2010) 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 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 so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back to be back up by about 4:45pm.
Updated MathJax on web server
August 24, 2010 by
The MathJax software on our webserver, www.math.toronto.edu, has been updated to version 1.0.1a.
textconv command
August 13, 2010 by
The textconv command is now available on coxeter. It will convert a file to UNIX (the default), MAC, or DOS end-of-line file formats. It changes the file in place if an output file is not specified, that is, it will overwrite the original file with the new version. Run man textconv for more details.
Software updates on Wednesday August 11, 2010
August 10, 2010 by
The departmental server coxeter, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during the afternoon tomorrow (August 11, 2010) 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 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 so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back to be back up by about 4:45pm.
java and firefox
August 4, 2010 by
There are some issues with running java inside of firefox since the update this afternoon. We are investigating the problem.
Software updates applied on August 4, 2010
August 4, 2010 by
The planned software updates were completed this afternoon before 5pm and all systems are online.
Software updates on Wednesday August 4, 2010
August 3, 2010 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied during the afternoon tomorrow (August 4, 2010) 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 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 so we can investigate).
Toronto Hydro Voltage Reductions on Thursday, July 15, 2010
July 12, 2010 by
There will be voltage reductions of 3% (from 10am to 11am) and 5% (from 2pm to 3pm) on Thursday, July 15, 2010 as Toronto Hydro tests the electrical system (as part of a province-wide test). This will likely not affect our equipment, but there is a chance that some machines may fail.
