ISG News has posted a new item, 'Serious power outage'
On Wed Sep 23 around 01:00 a major power outage hit Höngg and Affoltern. Our
servers on the Hönggerberg campus switched to battery power, but since power
was gone for more than 3 h, the batteries eventually drained and all servers
switched off. Around 07:15 we began rebooting our infrastructure servers, but it
wasn't until noon that the most important services (home, web, mail) were back
up. Please bear with us while we still iron out the last remaining issues.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/09/23/serious-power-outage/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail server maintenance downtime on Thursday
late afternoon'
On Thursday, 24th of September 2009 starting at 5pm there will be a maintenance
downtime of the D-PHYS mail server. Estimated duration is one hour. During the
downtime, the mail server will not be able to receive or send e-mails nor will
it be possible to log in via IMAP, POP3 or SSH. Mails sent to the D-PHYS during
the downtime will not be lost but received when the mail server is available
again.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/09/22/mail-server-maintenance-downtime-o…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Microsoft Security Bulletin for September
2009'
Last night Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for September,
2009.
If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit Microsoft Update
to install the Security
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/09/09/microsoft-security-bulletin-for-se…
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Patrick Frei
frei(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Unexpected downtime of authentication and
printer servers'
A security-update on one of our clusters failed unexpectedly and caused a
downtime of our authentication server and printer server which needed manual
intervention. All services should be back again by now. We apologize for the
inconvenience caused by this.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/09/07/unexpected-downtime-of-authenticat…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Roundcube webmail upgrade'
Tomorrow Tue September 8, starting from 0730, we will upgrade our Roundcube
installation. Expected downtime: about 15 min.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/09/07/roundcube-webmail-upgrade-2/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Webserver Upgrade on Thursday Evening'
On Thursday, the 27th of August 2009 around 16:00 we will start upgrading the
operating system and the webserver software of our main webserver zwoelfi. This
may lead to a downtime of many websites at D-PHYS including www.phys.ethz.ch and
nic.phys.ethz.ch.
Webmail and the mailing lists' web interface are not affected.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/08/25/webserver-upgrade-on-thursday-even…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Linux kernel local privilege escalation'
In case you've been wondering about the slightly dubious announcements of the
past few days: on Friday (2009/08/14) a local privilege escalation in all Linux
kernels of the last 7 years was published, together with an exploit.
Unfortunately no patched kernels were available by Friday late afternoon, which
put us into an awkward position. Generally it is not our policy to be sneaky
about security issues, but in this case we really did not want to attract
malicious script kiddies. That's why we decided to keep our announcements
somewhat vague. By now the worst seems to be over and all machines have been
rebooted with patched kernels.
We apologize for any confusion or service degradation this episode may have
caused on your side.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/08/18/linux-kernel-local-privilege-escal…
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Linux Kernel Update 2'
The update also affects "plimpy", our LTSP server. Please remember to save all
your documents and log out this evening.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/08/17/linux-kernel-update-2/
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sengun
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Linux Kernel Update'
We installed new linux kernels for our systems and the machines need to be
rebooted to run the new kernel. We will reboot the D-PHYS Linux Workstations
this evening after 08:00 pm. Please log out this evening before you go home,
save all unsaved work and don't start any long running jobs. You may also reboot
your workstation yourself earlier.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/08/17/linux-kernel-update/
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sengun
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'no backup during the weekend'
Due to a critical condition on our systems we were forced to shut down our
backup servers. This means there will be
No backup during this weekend.
Please be aware of this temporary limitation when producing large or important
amounts of data. We apologize.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2009/08/14/no-backup-during-the-weekend/
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Christian Herzog
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