For several days in the past week email messages sent to some CS users were forwarded to an incorrect address, causing them to "bounce." Those messages were not delivered, and the senders were informed that the intended recipient's account does not exist. This was due to an error on our …
This Thursday, August 24th, your CS login password will change. From that day forward, to log into a CS Linux system, you will use your Brown University login credentials. For those of us whose "short id" (e.g. jbazik) is different from our CS logname (e.g. jsb), we will thenceforth use …
***We're looking for early adopters who are interested in beta testing a Desktop installation of Debian Stretch on their office machine(s).***
If you use a Tstaff managed desktop in your office and are willing to help us dig out the bugs for this roll-out, please email problem@cs.brown.edu. We'll coordinate …
CIS Networking Group is performing maintenance on the CS edge switches tomorrow, July 11th, between 5:30am to 6:30am. Please expect network connectivity issues between the maintenance windows.---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Laura Dark
Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:23 AM
Subject: CIS Planned Maintenance: Network Connectivity within Computer Science Point …
The department-wide reboot of Linux desktop machines has now been rescheduled for Thursday, June 29th at 5am. That's tomorrow morning as of this writing.The reboot had been originally been slated for this morning (Wednesday), but we canceled that after learning of a different set of problems that the kernel update …
Tstaff will be rebooting most desktop machines on Wednesday of next week, June 28th, at 5am, in order to apply patches to both the Linux kernel and libc. (Note that we will not be upgrading the operating system from Debian 8 to Debian 9 at this time - that will …
Today's service downtime for mailing lists, time machine and ownCloud due to filesystem maintenance will be extended until noontime. This post will be updated when service returns.
Mailing List, Time Machine and ownCloud services will be down this Saturday, June 3rd for four hours, from 6am until 10am. CIS will be upgrading their file servers during that time, and these services will be affected.
We are aware of ongoing issues with the CS department website. The problem began shortly after midnight when both our main web servers got into an irregular state and had to be rebooted. Now parts of the website are back, but the home page itself (https://cs.brown.edu/) refuses to load properly. …
There was a power blip around 11:50am that affected the 3rd floor machine room. The power blip took down the CS domain controllers and print servers. All services have been restored now.