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  • Downtime – Dead UPS

    At about 5:45pm today the UPS in the Carlson Admin building died. As a result all network access to datatel, the admin building, and the…

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  • Mailserver, Email, Quota and Archived Mail Issues

    At about 3:20pm or so yesterday we had an issue with our mailserver.  This information from Tami should shed some light on what happened: Yesterday…

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  • Fedora Core 5 and Openldap

    After many hours of trial and error, I was finally able to get openldap on FC5 working the way we need it to.  I noticed…

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  • Spam Filtering

    As of this week, all new accounts we create will have spam filtering enabled by default. Our default spam score threshold is 6.  Any email…

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  • Secure.gac.edu changed

    The DNS entry for secure.gac.edu which used to point to an old solaris box named Zeme has now been changed to point to our new…

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  • Mailserver Issues

    At about 12:15am Tuesday morning, our email server stopped allowing people to access their inboxes.  At about 12:50am I rebooted it, woof.gac.edu, and restored access…

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  • Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

    To my surprise, Thunderbird updated its self this morning.  Looks like 1.5.0.2 has been released with some security fixes.  If yours does not update automatically,…

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  • UNIX Sys Admin Status Update 4-21-06 Datatel Update:   The new IBM AIX server is now here and in the server room.  The migration to the…

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  • imap.gac.edu certificate

    The SSL certificate that we were using for imap.gac.edu expires this weekend.  We have installed a new wildcard certificate ( *.gac.edu ) on our IMAP…

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  • Server Room Meltdown

    Some time early this morning the air conditioning for the server room in Olin stopped working. As a result the temperature in the server room…

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