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Mail List Server Maintenance, March 23 8pm-12am

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The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu wlll be down for maintenance Wednesday, March 23rd at 8pm for a major upgrade. The [Sympa](http://www.sympa.org/) mailing list software will be upgraded from version 5.4.5 to the most current version, 6.2.14.

We hope the upgrade will be completed by 10pm but are scheduling extra time in case of unexpected problems.

Mailing list owners and editors may wish to review the [Sympa release notes](http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS) for a summary of changes.
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Scattered Service outages tonight, Feb 17, 6-7pm

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Critical RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 17, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following IRIS services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

* Department web services (www.eecs, www.cs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)
* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department wiki service (wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
* Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* IRIS website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Resolved as of 2016-02-17 18:13:00

lists.eecs maintenence, Feb 10, 6pm

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The department’s mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be briefly unavailable tonight starting at 6pm, when it will be restarted to complete installation of some operating system patches.

In addition, message archiving will be temporarily disabled beginning at 5pm in order to migrate our mailing list archives to our new storage server. After the restart, list archiving will resume and all previously-delivered messages will be archived.

We expect the server to back in service no later than 6:15pm.

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Repo Service Down for Memory Upgrade

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The [Department’s Repo service](https://repo.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be offline Friday February 5 from 8am-10am for a memory upgrade. The server hosting this service has been performing poorly lately due to insufficient memory. Staff will be installing additional memory modules into this server to improve performance.

Resolved as of 2016-02-05 09:03:00

Dept Webserver Maintenance, Feb 3 8pm

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The Department website www.eecs.berkeley.edu will be undergoing maintenance beginning Feb 3 at 8pm. Operating system patches will be installed which require a server restart. We will also be migrating department website content to the new fileserver at this time. We expect the outage to last no longer than 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2016-02-03 20:06:00

Linux Server Patching, Jan 14th 9pm-10pm

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A number of IRIS services will experience brief outages Thursday January 14th between 9pm and 10pm while they are restarted after patching. These include:

* www.eecs.berkeley.edu
* lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
* jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu
* wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
* apps.eecs.berkeley.edu


We expect each service to be down for at most 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2016-01-14 21:28:00

IRIS Account Request Form out of service

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The IRIS form for requesting a new account is currently out of service due to an incompatibility with the recently-upgraded campus ldap service.

We are in the process of migrating this application to a new server and expect the migration to be complete by January 15.

Until then if you need a new IRIS account, please contact [the IRIS helpdesk](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/help) who will assist you in submitting a request.
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Various IRIS Services Down for patching, Wednesday, 6pm

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Routine RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Dec 23, 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 web services (www.eecs, www.cs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)

Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Department wiki service (wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)

Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)

IRIS website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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