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.
Oct 29, 2009
Since it was taking a long time to get the tcsh bug fixed we have gone back to the previous version of tcsh which has been working fine for us.
Oct 28, 2009
The departmental web server, www, has now had its software and hardware upgraded in preparation for the changeover to a new CMS-based departmental website. If you discover problems please send email to requests@math.toronto.edu.
Oct 27, 2009
The departmental web server, www, will be brought down briefly for a software and hardware upgrade tomorrow at about 11:00am. We will be moving to a faster, more eco-friendly server that will be able to support the new departmental website with content management. The new server software is more modern and as previously stated 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.
Oct 17, 2009
There seems to be a bug with the shell, tcsh, when combining quoted strings with the shell wildcard character (*) in some circumstances since the upgrade last Wednesday. This problem has been reported. A different shell (such as bash or zsh) could be used temporarily to avoid this problem (just type the shell name at the coxeter prompt to use a new shell).
Oct 14, 2009
The server updates went relatively quickly. coxeter and sphere were not rebooted and mail was unavailable for about a half-hour.
Oct 14, 2009
A new acroread upgrade arrived this morning so we will be adding that to this afternoon's updates. Users running acroread will have to restart those processes.
Oct 14, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter and sphere will be updated today, but we do not expect to have to reboot them. Java will be updated so if you use that then it may change after about 4:30pm...those who use java inside their browser (firefox) on coxeter will have to restart their browser. The mail server will go offline for software maintenance at about 4:15pm, as is normally scheduled. If there are no problems we expect that it will be back up before 5:00pm.
Oct 8, 2009
The University will upgrade our network connection in the Earth Sciences Building to the UofT backbone today (October 8) sometime between 9am and noon. They expect that our network connection to sites outside of the department will be interrupted for at most 15 minutes.
Oct 7, 2009
The mail quotas on the mailserver have all been increased by 50MB.
Oct 7, 2009
The departmental servers are back online. sphere and mail were back at 5pm and coxeter was back very shortly thereafter.
Oct 7, 2009
The quota reporting system on coxeter has not been working properly since yesterday. The mail server was temporarily out of service yesterday before noon. We expect that things should be back to normal after this afternoon's maintenance.
Oct 6, 2009
The University networking upgrade was completed without problems this morning. The server maintenance is still scheduled for tomorrow at 4:15pm, as usual.
Oct 2, 2009
The mail server changeover to maildir went fairly well. There are only a few minor quirks to iron out. As always, you can check the maildir upgrade information page for more information.
Oct 2, 2009
The University will upgrade our departmental network connection (in Bahen) to the UofT backbone on Tuesday (October 6) at approximately 8:45am. They expect that our network connection to sites outside of the department will be interrupted for at most 15 minutes.
Oct 2, 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.