At 16:34PM Friday afternoon, some subnets in Cory lost connectivity to Soda. The network recovered within 5 minutes. The border router indicated some errors; we are working closely with the vendor to find the root cause. If we need to replace any hardware to solve this issue we will announce the outage in advance.
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CalAgenda Server is down
The CalAgenda web server is unavailable. Desktop clients are experiencing intermittent connectivity problems. All mobile devices are currently unable to sync up with or to CalAgenda.
Please check http://ucbsystems.org/ for additional information and status updates.
Reminder: Old IMAP Webmail Client to be Turned Off
As mentioned in the [announcement](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/2133-new-webmail-client-available) of the [new IMAP webmail client](https://webmail.eecs.berkeley.edu), the [old webmail client](https://imap.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be turned off at close of business today, November 20th.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was not available
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was not available
while it was patched with a new kernel. The new kernel
patch 137138-09 patched a vulnerability which could be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The vulnerability was caused due to an unspecified error in the socket (3SOCKET) function, which can be exploited to cause a system panic.
The vulnerability was caused due to an unspecified error in the socket (3SOCKET) function, which can be exploited to cause a system panic.
Resolved as of 2008-11-18 07:31:00
Create and Manage LDAP Groups with Regroup
[Regroup](/regroup) is a new application that enables you to create and manage groups on the EECS LDAP server.
What can you do with an LDAP group? Plenty, including:
* [Restrict access to a webpage](/10-services/web-technotes.html#auth).
* Define the membership of a [Sympa](https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu/sympa) mailing list.
* Restrict login access to *nix hosts.
* Restrict access to various LDAP-enabled applications.
To get started, [login to Regroup](/regroup) with your LDAP username and password.
November 2008 Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008.
PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 12th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM, HERMES and macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, November 12th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 12th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM, HERMES and macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, November 12th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Resolved as of 2008-11-12 15:36:00
Sympa and Jabber Server Rebooted
In order to add more memory to the server hosting Sympa and Jabber services, it had to be rebooted.
Total downtime for both services was less than a minute.
Total downtime for both services was less than a minute.
Resolved as of 2008-11-07 12:21:00
IMAP Server Crash and Reboot
Things should be back to normal.
The users that were moved last night should not have seen an interruption of service.
Mailing list messages delayed
The EECS mailing list server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, ran out of memory and stopped processing messages around 4am on Friday, November 7. It was restarted around 9am.
During the outage, the server was accepting incoming messages but not redistributing them. Once it was restarted all messages were then delivered. No messages should have been lost.
We will be adding more memory to the server in the next day or two, which should prevent this problem from occurring again.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
During the outage, the server was accepting incoming messages but not redistributing them. Once it was restarted all messages were then delivered. No messages should have been lost.
We will be adding more memory to the server in the next day or two, which should prevent this problem from occurring again.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Resolved as of 2008-11-07 09:15:00
IMAP E-Mail Migration — PLEASE READ
IDSG is planning on moving all IMAP accounts to a new more powerful server beginning tonight Thursday 6 Nov at 9PM.
During the hours of 9PM to 7AM IDSG will move as many users as possible from the old server to the new one.
We will begin with the users that have the smaller mailboxes. Users that are moved will be notified that the move is done.
You should check your mailbox expire settings at: https://webmail.EECS.Berkeley.EDU:442 to make sure they are correct.
What you might experience:
If your mailbox is in the process of being moved, you will not be able to read mail. You will logged out if you are logged in when the move starts for you and you will not be able to login again until the move is complete. The move process can take from 1 minute to more than an hour (for mailboxes that have several GB of mail).
The plan is to move the large mailboxes beginning Friday the 8th at 9PM through Monday the 11th at 7AM. Those users will be contacted in a separate e-mail so they can be more prepared. Unfortunately, we will not be able to give an exact time for any of the moves.
IDSG wishes to express our gratitude for your patience during the last few weeks while we sort out this problem.
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