Server updates on 2010nov17 were successful

The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.

Software updates on Wednesday November 17, 2010

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during Wednesday afternoon (November 17, 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.

Server updates on 2010oct27 were successful

The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.

Software updates on Wednesday October 27, 2010

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during Wednesday afternoon (October 27, 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.

Server updates were all successful

The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the updates.

Software updates on Thursday October 21, 2010

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during Thursday afternoon (October 21, 2010) which will require rebooting.  Some important updates arrived today (Wednesday) but there wasn’t sufficient time to warn people about the reboot, so we will have to do it on Thursday.  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.

Server updates were all successful

The departmental servers all appear to be working fine after the upgrades.

Server reboots

The mail server is checking its filesystems and so it (and coxeter) will probably be up by 5pm.  The other servers are up now.

Software updates on Wednesday October 6, 2010

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have a few software updates applied during Wednesday afternoon (October 6, 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 September 1, 2010

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.