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Hi,

Just a reminder to please logout of your workstation before you leave for the weekend.

Please save your work before you leave for the weekend. You will need to reboot your machine Monday morning when you return.

Thank-you in advance,

Hey all,

restarted idl server w/5 licences.

You can type "lmstat -a" to see the netids of current idl users.

http://www.astro.yale.edu/dept/computer/software.html

We will postpone reboot of astro file server (roc.astro.yale.edu) until sunday evening 7pm.

While the file server is down on Sunday, yu will not be able to login and your /home files will be unavailable.

Hi,

Tried to install the new idl licence server and it crashed astro8 (/data/dept).

I have reverted to the old licence and will have to contact rsi tech support...

Sorry for the interruption.

Hi, I need to reboot the astro file server (roc.astro.yale.edu) to configure new printing software.

I would like to do that tonight. Your /home files will be unavailable during this time. You will not be able to login during this time.

Please logout before 10pm (ie when you leave tonight).

You will need to reboot your computer tomorrow morning when you arrive.

Please contact us if this will conflict with your current work.

Thanks,

It seems the color laser printer on 2nd floor gibbs was set to print using manual paper feed. I have reset it to print using the paper tray.

Did another reset to astro email server (phoenix) and increased the number of allowed concurrent connections from 10 to 20. This *should* clear up issues sending email from pine.

We have cleared out most problems from our email "relay" switch-over (end of August). Further, we are doing some (spam) filtering of incoming email. At this point, I would like to encourage faculty members to migrate from their astro email to their central email address. Benefits include: spam filtering, manage your own vacation messages, and more reliable service.

Looks like I forgot to turn on email last night after I plugged the machine into the new UPS. Email was off from roughly 7:30pm-9:20am.

It will take a few hours for the email server to clear the queued messages.

I would like a brief shutdown the web(pegasus) & email(phoenix) servers to plug them into a new UPS.

This will delay delivery of email to @astro.yale.edu addresses a few hours, but you should not lose any email messages.

Please reply to this email if a shutdown tonight will cause problems.

The power outage also affected our computers. Our email server was slow in coming back up. You will need to reboot your workstation before you can access your files.

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Kim Jones wrote:

> Good Morning, > > We had a brief power outage this morning, we have found out it was > University wide. The outage was very brief, but unfortunately has affected > the water pumping system; so the water pressure in the restrooms and > kitchens are currently not functioning at full capacity. We have been > informed to wait about a half hour or so and if it has not returned to > full capacity facilities will come and check things out. I will do a walk > through on our floor and check the water pressure in about another 45 > minutes or so. Please let me know if there were any other issues as a > result of the outage. > > Thanks. > >

Updated information about idl: http://www.astro.yale.edu/dept/computer/software.html

Added link to weblog: http://www.astro.yale.edu/dept/computer/

I have updates the "software" webpage to include keyboard shortcuts for linux Gnome & KDE desktops:

http://www.astro.yale.edu/dept/computer/software.html

I have created a "public" upload area on the astro ftp site. This will allow anonymous ftp uploads:

ftp.astro.yale.edu/pub/upload/

If a collaborator wishes to send you files, she can use ftp to upload them to this directoy.

However, you will not be able to see nor access these files until a system administrator changes the file permissions. This is an awkward process, and is not an appropriate mechanism for regular or "real-time" file sharing.

For security reasons, we do not have a general ftp upload/download area (ie. they tend to be hijacked for distributing pirated software/movies/audio, etc.)

I have added web links to the printers webpage that shows current status of network printers.

You can use these web links to check if your document was successfully sent to the printer and to see which printer queues are available.

--Chris

I have updates some of the web pages describing email, web and remote ssh access for the astronomy department.

http://www.astro.yale.edu/dept/computer/

The links under "Servers & Access" are diagrams depicting on which machines various files live (eg /data/dept) and where to put web and ftp files for public access.

--Chris