Core Services

Author: doachs

  • Proxy server

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    doachs

    We have added more memory and disk space to our proxy server in the hopes that it will help at least a little bit with our ever increasing demand on our internet connection. It appears to have cached more than 8GB since Saturday. Hopefully saving us a few gigs of internet traffic.

  • Not a good day

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    doachs

    Well, as most of you probably noticed, solen was down today for close to an hour. That meant that email and home directories were out of commission during that time. Also from about 5:15pm to 8:00pm draco was down. Draco’s most noticeble service is running spamd which checks incoming email to see if it is…

  • iChat AV

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    doachs

    We have adjusted the firewall to allow iChatAV to create audio and video conferences. I was able to successfully get connected to my machine at home from my machine in the office via an audio chat. How well it works will depend on network conditions, but I know it should at least get connected ok.…

  • Quotas

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    doachs

    In case you have not noticed, any account that has been over quota for 10 or more days will be disabled today. If your account gets disabled then its time to contact the helpline.

  • IMAP

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    doachs

    A message from Jeff: I restarted the script that will kill all imapd processes around 3:40 in the morning. This is to get around some problem that appears to be mainly related to an interaction between eudora and our imap server causing processes to hang. It sounds like the users may also need to be…

  • Slow Email

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    doachs

    Email is experiencing a long delay right now. Not sure what it is, but we are looking into it. Probably spam related 🙂 Update: Everything seemed better by about 3:00pm. We think a machine sending spam backed everything up.

  • GAC Wireless

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    doachs

    Joel has brought some more wireless access points online in the Library today. So it looks like we have a grand totoal of 6 wireless access points in the library now. Hopefully that means you can get a good wireless signal anywhere in the library.

  • Gentoo Mirror

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    doachs

    It appears as though there are a few Gentoo Linux users on campus. This is a great thing but one issue that they faced was getting updated files for emerge via rsync. Since our network connection is basically maxed out most of the day, I set up a local mirror of the files that is…

  • AOL IM

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    doachs

    Lots of people have noticed that for some reason or another AOL IM here on campus has not been working very well lately. Well, that also means iChat was not working very well for me. So I tried to dig into the problem a little further and after making some slight adjustments to our traffic…

  • SpamAssassin

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    doachs

    There are a lot of ways you can improve SpamAssassin. One of the best things you can do is to train it. That way it will learn what is spam for you and what is not. To train SpamAssassin, you first need to ssh (or telnet ) to a machine with SpamAssassin on it. Either…