As scheduled, the remote access server was rebooted at 10:05am EST. This was the final step in its system updates and upgrades. It was back up by 10:10am EST.

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/06/25 10:11

System Updates and Upgrades:

• All lab Macs are updated.
• All lab Linux desktops are updated.
• All intro-lab Linux desktops are updated.
• All faculty Linux desktops are updated.
• Updates to lab Windows machines are in progress.

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/06/24 10:03

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

Get a blank cd or dvd and head into the lab. Our Backup to CD/DVD page will walk you through making a backup of your Computer Science account.

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.

Both lab printers, asprey and loaner are back up and fully operational.

Thanks to a visit from NetEffects (our printer repair folks) I can report that as of 11:20 am, asprey is now working. (Loner has been working since yesterday.)

— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/04/24 11:39

I had to reboot our remote access ssh server today. I will be monitoring it a little more closely. Sorry for the hassle - Greg

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00am there was a brief interruption of some of the CS servers and we produced a bare metal backup. The servers that were unavailable were:

• This wiki server (this includes all wikis hosted at CS)
• Our mysql server
• Our svn server
• Our system monitor
• Our conference server

Other systems were not be involved.

All systems are back up.

The problem we had in yesterday’s lab (Monday Jan. 8) has been resolved.

The problem was that one of the server maps needed to be manually rebuilt after changes made to our system. The other maps are delt with in an automated fashion so I did not notice that right off. It is all fixed now. -Greg

The CS intro lab is now part of the linux account loop. If you have a CS account you can now use it from the intro lab machines. -Greg

Remote Access was interrupted Monday January 21 11:30 AM for a reboot of the server. It is now back up.

-Greg

For 0.8 there was a corpora directory, now there is a data directory with corpora and other stuff in it. Add the following line to your .bashrc file (or modify the existing line to match this one):

” export NLTK_DATA=/usr/share/nltk/data "

Then log out and back in, from now on you will be all set.

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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— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/02/05 22:56

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