04/18/05
Dear users

You're receiving this email because you've logged into
webssh.decf.berkeley.edu or decf.berkeley.edu within the past few months. 
decf.berkeley.edu will be retired on 4/30/05.  All services provided by   
this server will be migrated to other servers before the end of the month.
You should notice no difference in service.  webssh.decf.berkeley.edu will
be moved to a new server.

On 5/1, the server will be unaccessible to users.

If you have files you've saved on the server, please migrate them off    
before the end of the month.  The files on this server is seperate from  
the files that are saved on either the mail server (maxwell.berkeley.edu)
or the file server (used by 1171 & 1111 client machines).

If you have any questions, please email consult@newton.berkeley.edu

08/26/04 As you know, on Sunday, the file server went down.  It took a whole day to
get it back up.  Yesterday, Wednesday, 3 of the file servers disks died.
We use a RAID5 system in case 1 disk dies.  But w/ 3 disks, we had to
restore from back up yet again.  Unfortuantely, in the dash to get the
file server completely back up, no backup was made between Monday and
Wednesday.  So your files are only as recent as Sunday morning between
9:30AM and 11:30AM.

I need to be taking the file server down over the next two days to try to
recover the original RAID array.  The tentative schedule is as follows:

Thursday after 8PM
Friday after 10PM
Saturday/Sunday 8AM - 2PM

  • 
08/25/04 Three disks on the file server died this morning.  I'm working
on restoring from backup right now.

    

  • 08/22/04 The file server is still down due to a problem with adding new
disks.  I'm still working on restoring the files.  I'm trying to get
it up by Monday morning.  This affects kepler and all Linux work
stations, as well as individual homepages.


  • 08/22/04 Last night, between around 9:30 PM and 8:30AM this morning, the root
partition of the mail server filled up.  As a result, mail sent during
this period was bounced back to the user with a User Unknown message.
Usually when this happens, the user will try to send the email again.
But I'll be going through the mail logs today and sending you an email
with the email of the user who sent you the message as well as the
subject.


  • 09/02/03:The mail virus scanner server had swap space problems 
this afternoon and was refusing email from around 1:30 PM till 
7PM tonight.  Our backup mail server did kick in and queued all 
the messages that were refused. I'm in the process of redelivering 
all the email.  You should also be receiving some "cannot deliver 
mail for last 3/4 hours" type of message.  Please ignore those as 
we're re-delivering now.

Sorry for the inconvience.  I guess it's time to move up the 
schedule for adding a second virus scanner server......


  • 08/21/03: SOBIG virus is now stopped at the mail 
server level.  You will not be receiving cleaned 
email messages.


  • 08/13/03: 
    This weekend, we will be adding a new 
file server.  To minimize downtime, we will be migrating 
files over two days.  The following services will be 
unavailable Saturday, 8/16/2003, 6AM-10AM and Sunday, 
8/17/2003, 6AM-10AM.  Actual downtime will be 1-2 hours 
while we move the files over.  But we're leaving a larger 
window just in case. During this time, the following service 
will be unavailable:

1.  Logins to kepler.berkeley.edu 
2.  All web services

Email service will still be available, except for WebMail.

What this means 
--------------- 

1.  The mail server will now be seperate from the file server.  
Users will now get two seperate quotas: a mail quota and a 
Home quota.  For more information on the new quota scheme, 
please check http://www.decf.berkeley.edu/help/quota/

Users will probably see an increase in their mail and disk 
quotas as a result of this move.

2.  We will eventually consolidate all DECF home directories 
into one file server for each access.  No more SFTPing between 
home directories. 

Due to budget cuts, as well as the consolidation of our 
file servers, disk quota policies will probably be revised 
sometime during this year.  We will send out notices before 
we implement the new policy. However, existing PAID disk spaces 
will not be affected.


    

  • 12/03/02: All services unavailable 1/12/02 7AM-10AM.


  • 11/20/02: Mail is now delivered to INBOX instead of mail spool.


  • 11/18/02: Mail and login server (kepler.berkeley.edu) unavailable 
11/28/02 for system maintenance
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  • 10/29/02: New/Upgraded Software on decf
          vim 6.0
          perl 5.8.0

    

  • 10/25/02 New/Upgraded Software on helium
        Acrobat 5.0.6
        ghostscript 7.0.5
        vim 6.0
        perl 5.8.0
        enscript
        xemacs
        gv 3.5.8

    



  • 10/09/02: 
Off-campus mail relay is now available.
    


  • 10/1/02: 
Newton is now a no-login server.
/var/spool/mail is no longer mounted on kepler.berkeley.edu
    


  • 09/20/02:
New spam filter software replaces old one.  See Spam Help Files 
for details.

	
  • 09/18/02: New (and hopefully improved) system-wide Spam filter installed.
        http://www.decf.berkeley.edu/help/mail/spam.html
    

	  
  • 09/17/02: :  kepler, web servers, all email retrieval unavailable
           09/22/02, 6am-9am for system maintenance
    
	  
  • 09/10/02: All web servers will be unavailable 09/15/02, 7AM-8AM for
	  memory upgrade.
    

	  
  • WebMail upgraded 09/07/02.  New features include:
    

	    
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  • 08/21/01 - New software installed on decf.berkeley.edu:
    
	                    JDK 1.3.1
    
			    Netscape 4.76

	     
  • 07/19/01 - passwd synced between newton & decf
	     
  • 07/01/01 - Manager's Report (07/01/00 - 06/30/01)
	     
  • 07/04/01 - qpopper upgraded to 4.0.3 on newton.

	     
  • 06/28/01 - Matlab 6 and Sun Forte Developer 6.1 installed
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