The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied during this afternoon (Apr 7, 2010).  Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software (such as firefox, acroread, or openoffice on coxeter since that server is used by many people for more varied things).  We hope that any issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading without bringing coxeter 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).

The various software upgrades are now complete.

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, mail, and www will have software updates applied during the usual scheduled maintenance time, starting at approximately 4:15pm on Wednesday (March 24).  The systems will become unavailable around that time, and we expect that the systems will be back in operation by 5pm, if there are no unforeseen problems.

The various software upgrades are now complete.

Please note that firefox, openoffice, and acroread processes will be terminated when the new versions are installed.

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, mail, and www will have software updates applied during the usual scheduled maintenance time, starting at approximately 4:15pm on Wednesday (February 24).  It appears that reboots will not be required, but all firefox, acroread, and openoffice processes will have to be terminated.  Reboots may become necessary if additional software updates arrive before the maintenence time.