December 2018 Linux Server Patching

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Dec 12, 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 website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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UPDATE

[2018-12-12 12:18:51 | Rob McNicholas]

Due to a mistake on my part, these servers were patched and rebooted a day early, on Dec 11th at 6pm. All services are now patched and will not be rebooted again this month.

My apologies for the mistake.

Resolved as of 2018-12-11 18:30:00