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.
Dec 29, 2009
The mail server is working normally again.
Dec 29, 2009
The mail server is currently slow due to a large backlog of mail that is is being processed. IMAP access is currently disabled temporarily as well.
Dec 21, 2009
All systems are back online.
Dec 18, 2009
Reminder: Bahen power outage on Monday, December 21, 2009 from 7am until 5pm
The University has scheduled a complete power outage from 7am until 5pm for Bahen (and Koffler, Architecture, and Fields) for some electrical work, on Monday, December 21, 2009. No entry to Bahen will be permitted during those hours. All the main departmental servers and user machines will need to be shut down before this time. Machines will be shut down between about 6am and 7am on that morning. Please ensure that you have logged out of your personal machines and all the departmental machines before 6am. There will be no access to coxeter, sphere, www, or mail during the outage.
Dec 17, 2009
Adobe's acroread software has a major Javascript
security problem. The suggested JavaScript Blacklist Framework change
has been added to coxeter to prevent this vulnerability. However due to
continuing Javascript problems it is suggested that users do the following
to completely disable Javascript to prevent future problems:
1. Launch Acrobat or Adobe Reader. (On coxeter type: acroread) 2. Select Edit>Preferences 3. Select the JavaScript Category 4. Uncheck the 'Enable Acrobat JavaScript' option 5. Click OK
Dec 16, 2009
The departmental server upgrades were completed a little before 4:45pm.
Dec 16, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter and sphere will be brought down for software maintenance at 4:15pm today as was previously announced. The web and mail servers will also be temporarily unavailable. If there are no problems we expect that they will be back up around 4:45pm.
Dec 15, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter and sphere will be brought down for 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 4:45pm.
Dec 9, 2009
The departmental servers were upgraded and they were all back online before 5pm today.
Dec 8, 2009
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, www, and mail will be brought down for software maintenance at 4:15pm on Wednesday (December 9) as is normally scheduled. If there are no problems we expect that they will be back up around 5:00pm.
Dec 4, 2009
Bahen power outage on Monday, December 21, 2009 from 7am until 5pm
The University has scheduled a complete power outage from 7am until 5pm for Bahen (and Koffler, Architecture, and Fields) for some electrical work, on Monday, December 21, 2009. No entry to Bahen will be permitted during those hours. All the main departmental servers and user machines will need to be shut down before this time. Machines will be shut down between about 6am and 7am on that morning. Please ensure that you have logged out of your personal machines and all the departmental machines before 6am. There will be no access to coxeter or the mail server or the web server during the outage. There is a small chance that the day or time for the outage will change; please see this webpage for any updates before December 18 (this webpage will not be accessible when the power is out).