Older status page information has been moved to oldstatus so that this page could be made easier to read and more up-to-date. New information will continue to be added near the top of this page.
Sep 30, 2009
The mail server was brought up at 1:30pm and seems to be working fine.
Sep 30, 2009
Things are taking a little longer than anticipated, 1:30pm is the current estimated completion time.
Sep 30, 2009
The mail server is now being converted to the new maildir format. We expect things to be back up at about 1pm as originally planned.
Sep 30, 2009
The departmental mail server is now offline for the maildir upgrade.
Sep 30, 2009
The /mail partition on coxeter has been unmounted in preparation for the update in about a half-hour.
Sep 24, 2009
The upgrade of the departmental mail server, mail, is currently scheduled to start next Wednesday (Sep 30) at 11am. The switchover should be done by 1pm (perhaps even by noon). There is a possibility that coxeter will have to be rebooted during this time, but we will try to avoid that. The earlier than usual upgrade schedule was chosen to give people time to ask questions during the day after this change. There is more information at the maildir upgrade information page.
Sep 22, 2009
The upgrade of the departmental mail server, mail, is being moved to Wednesday (Sep 30) of next week to give some people a little more time to prepare for the change and to automatically handle more changeovers. In particular, the old methods of filtering spam email and whitelisting and blacklisting of email addresses will be replaced by newer ones, now that the PureMessage filtering has proven to be quite reliable.
Sep 16, 2009
coxeter and sphere were back up before 6pm and seem to be functioning normally again.
Sep 16, 2009
The mail server was back online at about 5:15pm. coxeter is still updating but seems on track to be finished before 6pm.
Sep 16, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and mail are currently unavailable for software updates. It seems that this large update will take somewhat longer than usual. Currently we estimate that the servers will be back by 6pm.
Sep 14, 2009
The departmental mail server, mail, will soon (next Wednesday is the currently scheduled date) be upgraded to the more backup-efficient maildir format. This new format does not allow dots (.) to be used in folder names. Users who have such mail folders will then see that a folder such as my.news will become a folder my with a subfolder news which will contain the messages. We will be increasing the email quota by 50MB initially after this change and expect to add more soon.
Sep 14, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and mail will be brought down for hardware/software maintenance at 4:15pm on Wednesday, as is normally scheduled. If there are no problems we expect that they will be back up around 5:00pm.
Sep 8, 2009
The departmental web server, www, will soon be moved to a new, faster server in preparation for some major changes. We will be updating the web server software to a much newer version, but the only likely noticeable change is that the default is to use UTF-8 encoding instead of ISO-8859-1 encoding for characters. This will not affect you if your webpages use only the usual ASCII character set. You can explicitly set the charset encoding to the old encoding for a webpage if you desire by adding:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />to the head section of your webpages.