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While trying to restore an old web page for a user, the filesystem mounts got messed up. Everything should be back to normal as of 10:20pm.

Outages date status description 2/13/2012 fixed 3:10pm pager service not working 2/13/2012 print server flakey 2/15/2012 complete ...

The network transition is complete. Some ports on subnet 17 had a configuration problem, but should be fixed as of 3:30pm 2/15/2012. If you are still having any problems ...

The unix print server rebooted 3 times last night. Printing directly to printer not affected.

date status description 1/3/2012 Unexpected power fluctuation disrupted heat on AE 1st floor and killed at least one machine 1/25/2012 ok Web ...

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Email Servers server for faculty and staff See https://www.cs.rpi.edu/twiki/view/LabstaffWeb/ScheduledEmailTransition for details and links list server for existing ...

We are transitioning to email being hosted on the campus exchange server. During the transition, you can check to see if it is complete by sending email to your CS ...

The web server which serves home pages was down due to all of the httpd processes being stuck on disk wait. Server stalled during reboot and had to be power cycled ...

UNC Paths path resource Description \\sambasrv\swinstall RCS RPI Software installation note Connect to RCS resources using your RCS login and ...

The HVAC will be shut down in the MRC from Thursday, January 5th at 8am to Friday, January 6th at 4:30pm. The fans may come on for the period between midnight and ...

12/5/2011 ok AE 118 AC condensate pump failed bypassed 12/1/2011 ok Email mx record changed prematurely, mailing lists, students, and a few others affected ...

Those users not transitioned to exchange and CS mailing lists not working due to a mistake in DNS. Fixed around 1:30pm. It turned out that problems from the change ...

11/1/2011 ok AC in AE 118 stopped working, fixed at least short term

Printing Configuration Macintosh For copiers Make sure you are connected to a wired CS network Go to http://www.support.xerox.com/support/enus.html and ...

Passwords passwords were mailed to your existing CS accounts 9/20/2011. new passwords must be at least 10 characters long and must be changed at least once every ...

Public CS printers unix name ip address location reachability model special notes mxp mrc335bwp.cs.rpi.edu MRC copier ...

The air conditioner in Amos Eaton 118 stopped working. The unit turned off because the conensate pump was too full. After manually draining the pump and cleaning ...

10/27/2011 ok cgi server down with ipmi problems, fixed 8/1/2011 down workstations need to be reinstalled 7/21/2011 degraded MRC machine room AC ...

This evening, Tuesday November 1st, beginning at approximately 5pm, maintenance to the Exchange Mail Infrastructure will begin. Maintenance may take up to 3 hrs and ...

Requesting a new mailing list See http://helpdesk.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey 125 for details on requesting a mailing list from the VCC .StevenLindsey ...

Amos Eaton 217 has 10 machines on one side of the room running Ubuntu that allow guest logins. It will not save your settings or files, but is good for quick browsing ...

Offices Each graduate office typically has at least one general purpose CSLab machine. While these machines do not restrict logins locally or remotely, it is expected ...

nop FreeBSD workstations depended on barak and will need to be re installed with Ubuntu when time permits (not for a while) Solaris workstations will need to be converted ...

The CGI server ran out of swap space during project submission and crashed and would not boot due to the IPMI log being full. Booted to BIOS and cleared out years ...

Imap server settings: Server name:imap.cs.rpi.edu port 993 Connection Security: SSL/TLS Authentication method: Normal password ...

Requesting creation of a wiki web A CS faculty member should email nop labstaff@cs.rpi.edu with the following information: Name of the wiki web ...

Due to an air conditioning outage in the MRC, we have shut down all of the machines in the MRC machine room except for the networking switches, which we hoped would ...

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Topics Accepted Students Chat Server Computing Facilities Computing Services Certificates and Keys emacs ...

Backups Files in your unix home directory or under project space are automatically backed up several times each day. A snapshot of filesystems on the main fileserver ...

Resources How do I access a computer (logging in) Where do I find information on printing problems? How do I transfer files to and from my account? Windows ...

Topics https://www.cs.rpi.edu/mailman HOWTO HOWTO: Automatically delete held messages Access the admin interface for your mailing list Select nop General ...

Introduction We recommend using scp (secure copy) or sftp (secure file transfer) for file transfers. S commands will authenticate your connection to a remote host ...

Introduction Logging in remotely Logging in from the command line Use the ssh (secure shell) command ssh ${login}@remote.cs.rpi.edu p 22 Logging in using ...

Department servers Network services provided by the department include email, web, filesystem, backup, DNS, DHCP, wireless, routing, remote access, and firewall. These ...

Important Note Do not fall for scams that try to gather passwords or personal information. (Click here for tips on avoiding them) Alerts and Downtime SoftwareAndUpgrades ...

Reporting a problem Before reporting a problem, please check downtime page to see if the problem has already been reported. Faculty and Staff have accounts on https ...

We have moved to a new trouble ticketing system. CS Faculty were emailed accounts in June. The url for the new system is https://rpics.mojohelpdesk.com/ You will ...

Select "Local Folders", then click on "View settings for this account" Click on "Account Actions" at the bottom, and select "Add Email Account" Fill in your ...

HOWTO: Enable your auto responder Log into https://exchange.rpi.edu Click on "Options" in the upper right hand corner of the screen, then select "See All ...

cs userid transition date status chrisc 9/22 coonrad 9/22 haydent 9/22 lindss2 9/22 paslowp 9/22 ...

After quite a bit of trial and error trying to get an iphone4 working with exchange (without the special pay client), we found that if you add an "other" server rather ...

Logging In using your CS Account The first time you log in, it will most likely be through ssh to remote.cs.rpi.edu or directly on one of the public workstations in ...

As of 9/1/2011 8/9/2011 down samba printing not working, see updated printing directions 8/9/2011 ok problems receiving some off campus email 8 ...

We have moved all home directories and projects onto a network appliance( nop NetApp). This gives us greater reliability of storage, lower maintenance, and far simpler ...

There will be brief interruptions as ports are switched from our closet to the VCC closet beginning around 10am. There should be no change in the way things work after ...

Request: Creation of a project database Request: Creation of a Mailing List Request: Filesystem Storage Request: Creation of a Subversion Repository ...

We transitioned to having the VCC provide dns on Wednesday, August 3rd at 8am due to technical problems. If you manually configure your DNS settings, it should be ...

HOWTO: Configure Thunderbird 3.1.11 Lauch thunderbird, enter basic CS account information Stop automatic probe and click "Manual Server Setup" Server ...

DNS service is now handled by the VCC, but short term please continue to send requests through labstaff #64;cs.nospam.rpi.edu until troubleshooting is complete.