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September 27, 2009

We are currently migrating to Postgres 8.3. For portions of tonight, postgres may be down, and changes made may be lost.

Update: 11:59pm The migration should be complete, and databases should connect to 8.3 by default.

September 13, 2009

We will be migrating to Postgresql 8.3 in a few weeks. To help you make this migration, we have set up a Postgres 8.3 server at postgres:5433. Please test your applications against this new database. See Postgres migration for more information. As always, contact us if you have any questions.

August 22, 2009

A "phising" email was just sent to many UGCS users which asks you to reply with a username and password. Do not reply to this message- it is a scam. UGCS sysadmins will never ask you for your password.

August 19, 2009

We have set /afs/.ugcs/ugcs-admin to be world-readable. You can now look through the various utilites we have written to help automate the cluster administration. Over the next few months, we will be setting up a website to better document the code we have written.

We also have a read-only copy of our svn repository available at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/svn, or you can access it at file:///afs/.ugcs/ugcs-admin/svn We're quickly adding our projects to it, so check back often!

August 14, 2009

Over the next day or two, we will be rebooting our shellservers with a new setup. This will improve their speed and usability, but will result in some downtime in various shellservers. Contact us if you're planning on running and long-term jobs.