Just a fast update to let people know what is going on with email:
1. The ongoing network issues are still having some effect but it should have minimal impact on mail (meaning you may see a bit of slowdown or have a connection drop on occasion but nothing persistant due to this).
2. We have added [...]
It seems that there is a security hole in all versions of Ruby on Rails, and so today we’re working on a mandatory upgrade. We will do this as carefully as possible, but it sounds like this needs to be rolled out quickly. We’ll post another update as soon as this is completed.
Update: Packages are [...]
Those of you on the babyruth server may have been experiencing some problems today. We’ve found the source of the problem, but unfortunately it requires us moving the server to new hardware. We’re in the process of doing that now and it should be back up and running within the next hour. Sorry for [...]
Some of you are experiencing mail sending problems this morning. It looks like the database handling outgoing mail authentication is not working properly. The admins are looking into it, and are contemplating changing the db itself, so this sort of sending issue won’t happen any more.
Please check back here for updates and try using [...]
Tonight we will be performing emergency maintenance on a filer which has started having its watchdog card reboot it every 5 hours or so, and a power strip which can no longer remotely manage.
The filer swap should only take about 15 minutes. There will be very little discernable problems unless your data is actually [...]
Just like charm, io has lost it’s memory… going down for an upgrade now.
-UPDATE-
Io is back up and working like, uhm, charm.
Charm is going down for a memory upgrade. Check this space for updates.
-UPDATE-
Charm is back up in all it’s glory!
The shared mysql server grizabella lost its backup drive during the power outage it seems. I am going to take it offline in about 15-30 minutes for about 15 minutes to swap out the disk.
The annoucement list processor was stuck for a little while.
It is running now, and all the customer newsletters are going through, one by one.
Sorry about the delay!
Our automated scheduling system fell behind due to our ongoing network problems.
We have them in queue, but it may take anywhere from 2-10 hrs for all of them to run.
We are planning on adding another machine just to process the backlog, so it may be a shorter wait.
We apologize for the inconvenience this has [...]
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