News - Apr 2005

Apr 28 2005 - Tigger will be down tonight (early Friday morning) from 12:00 Midnight to 2:00 AM to apply patches relating to Wednesday's system crash.

Apr 09 2005 - The ADSM Network Backup Service will be down from 2:00-4:30PM Satruday afternoon April 8 for hardware and software upgrades.

Apr 08 2005 - RHN.CC.UIC.EDU -- our RedHat Linux Update server has been rebuilt.

Update service is now available again, but you will need to get a new certificate from the server. Please download http://rhn.cc.uic.edu/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT and place it in /usr/share/rhn/ to allow updates to work.

New installations of RHEL will not be able to complete, as the configuration script has not been modified for the changes in the new server. I'll get to that on Monday.

Apr 07 2005 - The RHN Proxy server suffered a hardware failure this morning and is currently unavailable. Service will be restored tomorrow.

Apr 05 2005 - The tigger system will be down tonight from 10:00 PM until 12:00 Midnight to apply new patches received from IBM for the filesystem problems we have been experiencing.

Apr 05 2005 - Webmail was malfunctioning from 2am until 8:30 am this morning. We traced the problem and are taking measure s to prevent a recurrence.