The printer asprey is now a new HP LaserJet and is full duplex. Loaner is still on line, but if you have a multipage job, please send it to asprey and save some paper.

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/11/07 09:04

This was a scheduled outage for maintanance to the host hardware for those servers. -Greg

We have been having some ongoing network problems tonight. More as I am sure of it. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/10/04 23:41

Friday Oct. 3

Our print spooler had some problems Friday afternoon and I moved it to a different host.  Our older xen (virtual machine) server is having some problems.  I am in the process of moving its hosts to another xen server.

Printing is back up now and should stay that way,

-Greg  — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/10/03 18:10

As of 10:30am all our servers are up and running again.

We were down from 8:30am until 10:30am.

We changed the machines that our firewall was running out of due to a bad power supply, and we moved the machine that our mail server was running out of.  What was the mail server, after fan repair became the firewall and the mail server seems happy in it’s new home which is a repaired machine with more processing power that the old one had.

So, all is done, all is up and running.  Now I order parts...

 — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/12 10:48

Our Squirrelmail server was offline for part of last night.  It has been back since early this morning (Sept. 9).  It should be fine now, but if you are currently experiencing any problems with it please let me know.  — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/09 07:06

Monday, shortly before 6AM a hard drive on our oldest server died.  This drive served a few older sections of our web site as well as the usr/local section of solaris programs.  We had a clean backup, and the partitions have been restored.  — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/08 17:11

New Semester begins soon.  If you have not used your CS account in a while you might want to make sure you can still get in to it.  If you have forgotten your password or need other assistance getting going again, please write me.  -Greg

As scheduled, the remote access server was rebooted Aug. 21 at 9:15am EST.  This was to put in the latest kernel.  — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/08/21 10:16

Vassar’s internet connection was down.  I received a call saying it was the College’s ISP that was having problems.  It seems to be fine now.

 — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/07/21 21:42

  * All lab Macs are updated.   * All lab Linux desktops are updated.   * All intro-lab Linux desktops are updated.   * All faculty Linux desktops are updated.   * All lab Windows machines are updated.  

 — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/02 11:30

As of 11:00pm Saturday most services were back on line.

By Sunday Eve. the last problem had been cleaned up.  Our rebuilt firewall is performing well.

On Saturday May 31 Vassar’s power was turned off while the power company made some changes. By 3:00pm the power was back up, but unfortunately our network connection did not come back up until much later Saturday evening.

 — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/06/02 09:31

At 10:22pm the connection from our machines out to the campus (and from there the rest of the world) went dead.  I came in and confirmed  that it was the network cable and not our firewall or some other problem on our side of the connection.  At that time I could not reach anyone at CIS.

At 8:45am I was able to speak with David Blahut, the Network Manager at CIS and he quickly restored signal to our line, - Thanks Dave!    -Greg 

 — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/05/16 09:04

The osX Macs in the lab now use your CS username and password for login.  They do not mount your Linux home space.  User space on the Mac’s is not persistant.  Every time you log in your directory is recreated from scratch.

If you are leaving Vassar, don’t forget to pack your CS computer account! We have written a script to automate the process of creating a CD image of your account see.  For information and instructions see:

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sysnews/isohome

Watch this space for updates.

System Status

More as I know it,

Greg

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