IRIS

Instructional & Research Information Systems

EECS

Rob McNicholas

Mailing List Server maintenance, Wednesday March 3, 6pm-7pm

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The EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be briefly down for maintenance tonight, Wednesday March 3, 2021, beginning at 6pm.

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require a system restart. During this maintenance window, the web interface will be inaccessible, and any mail sent to a mailing list will be temporarily delayed until the server resumes operation. We anticipate an outage of no more than 30 minutes but some extra time is being scheduled in case of unforeseen problems.

As usual, please send any questions to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

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EECS Mailing List Server downtime, May 13 6p-7p

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The Department’s Mailing List server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be down for maintenance on Wednesday May 13, 2020, beginning at 6pm, for up to one hour. During this time incoming messages will be held for delivery; no mail will be lost, but the web interface will be inaccessible. During this maintenance, operating system patches will be installed, and the back-end database for this service will be migrated to a newer server.

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Ending support for TLS 1 and TLS 1.1 on March 24, 2020

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Following the lead of the campus, Google, and other industry leaders, IRIS will be ending support for the older security protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on the department web servers (e.g. people.eecs.berkeley.edu, www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu, and any IRIS-hosted web site) on March 24, 2020. If you are using a modern web browser, you will not notice any changes.

NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020

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To: System Administrators of Unix / Linux devices
Subject: Retirement of IRIS NIS service in EECS

IRIS NIS (Network Information Services)  allows Unix computers to look up IRIS usernames, groups, passwords and other information from IRIS NIS servers.

Dating back to before the creation of IRIS, NIS service has been supported in the EECS Department.   Now, IRIS provides the LDAP protocol as a replacement for NIS. This is now our supported service for distributing Unix username, password and group data. IRIS LDAP service features  multiple redundant servers, and is updated in real-time with user account data.

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February 19, 2020 Linux Server Patching

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Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 19, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience outages of 30 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

  • Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
  • Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Mailing Lists & IRIS Applications patching Wednesday Jan 15, 5pm

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Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.

  • Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • IRIS Roster and Network applications on iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu.
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Mailing List Server maintenance, Wednesday, June 5, 5pm-7pm (rescheduled)

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The EECS mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be down for maintenance beginning Wednesday, June 5th at 5pm. The Sympa mailing list software will be upgraded to resolve an issue that has been affecting some lists. (This bug causes updates to list owners or moderators to not take effect until the server is restarted.

The upgrade should take less than 1 hour, but we are allocating 2 hours in case of any problems that might occur. During this window, no messages will be accepted or distributed by lists.eecs.berkeley.edu. Incoming messages will be deferred until the server is back up; no messages should be lost.

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May 2019 Linux Server Patching

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A few IRIS services will experience brief outages May 15, 2019 between 6pm and 7pm while systems are restarted following patching.

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, May 15th, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

  • Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
  • Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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