Skip to content

2011

  • 1 min read

Mail Server Down

The mail server is experiencing some issues and is currently down. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

  • 1 min read

Web Server Crash

The web server (death/www.OCF) had crashed again. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

UPDATE 12:03am: Fixed, web server is functioning again.

  • 1 min read

Websites down

Our webserver ran into troubles with virtualization and crashed at 10:15pm last night. We are working to bring it back up and apologize for the inconvenience. User data should not been affected and is still accessible over SSH.

Update 11:07am: Should be back up.

  • 1 min read

flood.OCF rebuild

flood.OCF has been taken offline as the machine is being rebuilt. Users should see no effect as all services running on flood have been transitioned to another server.

  • 1 min read

Our print server crashed a week ago and users' print quotas were wiped. A Board of Directors resolution was passed to set each users' quota to 175 pages given that we are in the 7th week of the semester. Users can email staff and will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

  • 1 min read

Login servers

We are taking apocalypse down for maintenance. Most users should not be affected, however SSHing directly into apocalypse.ocf.berkeley.edu will not work.

To SSH into a login server, use the hostname ocf.berkeley.edu, as specified by our documentation.

Tuesday outage

On an unrelated note, tsunami (our primary login server) was down between 7:00am and 2:40pm on Tuesday, Feb 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update: Tuesday, February 22

apocalypse.OCF has been permanently discontinued as a SPARC login server. We will be discontinuing support for the SPARC architecture.

tsunami is currently our 32-bit x86 login server, and was upgraded on Sunday to Debian 6.0.

  • 1 min read

OCF Not Open Until Furthur Notice

Due to unexpected problems with the Windows Server, the Windows lab machines do not work.
We will update you as progress happens.

Update 01/19 at 09:17 PM: We were able to implement a temporary solution so that some of the Windows computers in the lab work (as well as some of the Linux computers). The computers with blue post-it notes definitely do not work. The others worked when last checked. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 01/20: The machines previously with blue post-it notes are now working. All computers should be working as before.

  • 1 min read

Mail scheduled maintenance

As part of our ongoing consolidation and maintenance of mail infrastructure, OCF mail will be scheduled for maintenance in short period(s) during the beginning of the spring semester.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope for better performance, reliability, and redundancy in the long run.

Mail is currently scheduled for maintenance on Monday, January 17, while /var/mail is migrated to a permanent mail server. Incoming mail will not be accepted during this time, but read-only access will be available as much as possible through the login servers (but not on POP/IMAP and webmail).

As always, you can follow our progress here and on IRC.

UPDATE 05:25p: Maintenance will begin shortly. /var/mail will now be mounted read-only.

UPDATE 06:00p: /var/mail is currently being migrated to a permanent server. It will still be mounted read-only, and accessible through the login servers (but not on POP/IMAP and webmail).

UPDATE Tuesday 01:40p: Mail should now be back up, including the login servers, POP/IMAP, and webmail.