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The following is a list of commonly used packages with high impact vulnerabilities (more recent at the top): Package OS Minimum Version As of Java ...

Outages date status description 6/13 fixed before 9:30am problems connecting to respite or sending email through IMAP reported web client seems ...

Location Wednesday 5/29 Thursday 5/30 Friday 5/31 Monday 6/3 Tuesday 6/4 Wednesday 6/5 Thursday 6/6 Friday 6/7 Amos Eaton (1) ...

Public CS printers unix name ip address location reachability model special notes config options mxp mrc335bwp.cs.rpi ...

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 ...

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 SoftwareUpdates ...

There is a planned outage of the campus exchange email server from 5pm 6pm on Wednesday, March 13th. It is recommended (but not required) that you exit your mail ...

1/24 ok CS mailing lists are bouncing to all recipients. VCC notified 1/26 @ 20:42

2013 January 2013 Outages 2012 January 2012 Outages February 2012 Outages March 2012 Outages April 2012 Outages May 2012 Outages June ...

It appears that email sent to (CS) mailing lists started bouncing January 24th or 25th. Regular email does not appear to be affected. Missed messages will still ...

I migrated our database from our nop FreeBSD server to an Ubuntu server on Tuesday, January 15. There was a brief outage from 9am to about 9:30am while the current ...

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

11/4 degraded old mail server running with hardware problems 11/18 fixed cooling problems in VCC, shutting some servers down

The following message came out warning of a brief outage Friday, November 30 starting at 6am. Please plan accordingly. DotCIO will be implementing some changes to ...

An emergency power outage is being scheduled by the RPI Electrical shop to replace an emergency transfer switch at the CII. The outage is scheduled to beginning at ...

10/2 ok Email server config problems

Department servers Network services provided by the department include web, filesystem, backup, and remote access. Servers that you are likely to need are: host ...

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

The CS email server will be taken down permanently in the near future, previously scheduled for October 5, 2012. This does not affect your @rpi.edu or @alum.rpi.edu ...

Due to some file corruption in the email server config, some people were not able to delete email. Problems should all have been fixed by 2am Oct 3.

9/16 working CS mailing lists broken, working as of 9/17 10:37am 9/25 working outgoing mail broken for cs sender addresses

The server reports that the user is not known when trying to send from the exchange server to a non exchange email address even when using the web client. It appears ...

BUILDINGS AFFECTED: MRC SYSTEMS AFFECTED: Normal Power DATE WORK TO BE DONE: Tuesday September 18th LENGTH OF TIME REQUIRED: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM REASON FOR SHUTDOWN ...

Use ssh to connect to linux.cs.rpi.edu and type something along the lines of: imapsync host1 hostname1 port1 port# user1 userid#1 domain1 fully.qualified ...

8/1 complete Power outage in AE and Lally 8/13 complete mailing list transition 8/14 complete MRC power outage 5pm 7pm 8/28 complete MRC ...

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Topics Computing Facilities Computing Services Certificates and Keys perl Python Subversion Revision ...

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 ...

UNIX programs that can be used to launch user commands at specified times command help description see also at man at one time, batch commands ...

Using Your CS Account You may ssh into linux.cs.rpi.edu to access your home directory and run programs. Please be considerate and confine extended runs for research ...

Using CS Lab Resources CSLab resources are primarily intended for research purposes, though we recognize that often research and classwork do overlap. We also maintain ...

Account Restrictions Accounts have few resource limitations placed on them. Because of that, one person can easily take so much that other people are unable to work ...

Account Suspension and Termination Accounts may be suspended for violations of CS Lab or campus computing policies. Campus policies are outlined in the ComEC, available ...

Account Expiration Your email is tied directly to your RCS account, so it will become unavailable when your RCS account does. Your linux account will not automatically ...

URLs url description https://submit.cs.rpi.edu/ Homework submission server HOWTOs Request a new project area for submission Contact labstaff ...

The CS mailing lists transitioned to the Sympa server in the VCC, and are accessible from https://cs.sympa.rpi.edu/. In brief: The new server has a lot more features ...

Windows Without Cygwin If you do not have Cygwin installed, you can use another ssh client, such as putty to connect click on putty.exe to download an ...

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 new passwords must be at least 10 characters long and must be changed at least once every two years by using ssh to connect to master.cs.rpi.edu and using ...

Power will be out for portions of 4:30pm to 6:30pm on Tuesday, August 28th. Please see http://plog.rpi.edu/node/134 for details.

Avoiding Web Scams Always suspect requests for information that you did not initiate. No legitimate entity should ever ask for your password or personal ...

Reporting a problem Before reporting a problem, please check downtime page to see if the problem has already been reported. Problems with email should be reported ...

For all regular requests, send email to labstaff #64;cs.nospam.rpi.edu. If you need to page labstaff, faculty and staff can email labstaff pager #64;cs.nospam.rpi ...

Department email list server Go to https://sympa.cs.rpi.edu/ click on Rensselaer Computer Science See https://www.cs.rpi.edu/twiki/view/LabstaffWeb ...

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 ...

Mathworks, Inc. has modified the licensing structure for Matlab. Going forward the faculty/staff license will be separate from the student license. This distinction ...

There is a power outage scheduled for Amos Eaton, Lally, and the Green building from 1pm on August 1st to 3am on August 2nd. Email and linux.cs.rpi.edu will not ...

7/17 ok Brief campus wide network outage 7/20 7/23 ok RCS authentication issues affecting some users

Some users seem to have corrupt entries that allow them to get their mail, but not log in to respite or the VPN. Changing the password sometimes fixes the problem ...

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

5 7pm Remove breaker for repair. This is phase 1 of 3. Two additional outages will be required to complete this work. The next two dates are TBD. See also http ...