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EECS Mailing Lists emergency maintenance May 15, 7pm

May 15, 2025 by Rob McNicholas

The EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu is experiencing some problems after recent patching. At this time, scheduled tasks such as syncing list membership from external sources, sending reminder emails, or building archives, are not working. This server will be taken down tonight, Thursday May 15, at 7pm in order to try to diagnose the problem or revert back to a pre-patched version. Total downtime should be less than 2 hours. During this time, any mail sent to a list on lists.eecs.berkeley.edu or lists.simons.berkeley.edu will be delayed but no mail should be lost.

Please send any questions to help@eecs.

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May IRIS Server Patching

May 12, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Thursday, May 15th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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April IRIS Server Patching

April 7, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, April 9th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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March IRIS Server Patching

March 7, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 11th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, March 12th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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February IRIS Server Patching

February 7, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, February 12th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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January IRIS Server Patching

January 10, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 14th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, January 15th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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EECS Mailing Lists Unavailable, Thurs. Dec. 12

December 12, 2024 by Derek Calderon

Since some time last night, our mailing list server lists.eecs has been offline due to an issue with the system. Staff are beginning to investigate and an update will be posted here when available.

While the list server is offline, some emails will be delayed, and any messages sent through an EECS mailing list will not be delivered on time.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions.

Update: Dec 12, 9am, Rob McNicholas

After installing the most recent patches, this machine would not boot up. We reverted to a previous kernel and the system is now up.

December IRIS Server Patching

December 6, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 10th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, December 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, December 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled)

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November IRIS Server Patching

November 8, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, November 13th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled)

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October IRIS Server Patching

October 4, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, October 9th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled)

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