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Web Document Folder Moved

mahdad — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:31:04 -0400

We have moved the web document folder to a new server for a better perfomance, and for prepration for redundancy.

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LDEO mail server downtime Sunday, May 31, 2009

mahdad — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:21:24 -0400

Both LDEO mail servers (yes, there is a new LDEO mail server... watch
for a formal announcement soon) will be down for configuration

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Password Phishing Email

mahdad — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:31:41 -0400

Many people have recently received an email asking to provide your username
and password. Many of you have recognized this as a scam and have reported

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Mail system continues to be slow

rgb — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:27:43 -0500

The email system continues to be slow and we are about to stop and restart the email applications

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Mail Access Slow

mahdad — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:53:20 -0500

Users with large mail boxes are having trouble connecting to lamont.ldeo.columbia.edu mail server. Some mail clients time out and indicate they can't connect.

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Mail delays over the weekend Jan16-Jan 20

tnt — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:25:44 -0500

Failure of an older system serving two home directories caused mail delays for some mail over the weekend.

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License Server Downtime

mahdad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:14 -0500

On Thursday January 8th, from 8:30 am-9:15 am, we will be performing software
maintenance on our central license server (licenses.ldeo.columbia.edu). Centrally

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LDEO email slow or unresponsive

tnt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:43:10 -0500

The LDEO email server may be slow or unresponsive at the moment due to heavy load. Please contact Doug Shearer (x8548) or Mahdad Parsi for help (x8698)

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LDEO mail server configuration change.

tnt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:57:55 -0500

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internet access slow or down

tnt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:06:39 -0500

Problems with internet access which started this morning have been corrected.

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Commodity Internet traffic rerouted Friday 11/14 8am - 10am

rgb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:12:24 -0500

Facilities informed us that there will be an electrical shutdown at
Nevis Laboratories, tomorrow morning, Friday 11/14/2008, from 8am to
10am,

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LDEO FTP server scheduled outage

rgb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:41:46 -0500

The LDEO FTP server (ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu) will be off line for several hours this Friday to allow for a disk space upgrade. Please check any automatic scripts for failures.

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LDEO mail server outage

tnt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:14:01 -0500

he LDEO mail server was down for most users starting a little before noon today. Service has been restored for most users. If you are still having problems please call X8548 or X8498

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LDEO mail server slow

tnt — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:18:58 -0500

The LDEO mail server is running very slowly at the moment. If you have a large INBOX please consider calling us to split it into smaller pieces. This will help both you and us.

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LDEO email server up

tnt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:54:10 -0400

The LDEO email server is up again

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LDEO email server down

tnt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:45:53 -0400

A power failure over the weekend is causing a problem with email. We are
working on the problem -- no time estimate yet.

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Clarification -- LDEO Mail Server Outage

tnt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:01:17 -0400

The LDEO mail server still does support pine and dtmail -- you do not have to switch to another email client. You may need to make configuration changes.

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LDEO Mail Server Outage

tnt — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:53:19 -0400

The LDEO mail server was slow or unusable from about 11:00 AM to 2:45 PM today. We believe we have identified the problem, and have prevented its recurrence.

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Network disruption Sunday 10/12

rgb — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:43:27 -0400

Network-Affecting Electrical Work in Nevis and Lamont

Severity Level: Level 3
Alert Date: 10/12/2008 - 08:00am to 10/12/2008 - 04:00pm
Alert Message:

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ArcGIS Moved

mahdad — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:04:49 -0400

If you are currently using ArcGIS, licensed by the lamont
servers, contact request@ldeo.columbia.edu for the new

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Oceanography Network Outage

mahdad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:52:54 -0400

Because of a power failure on Monday 9/1/08, the network resources in Oceanographty bldg is unreachable. This is effecting some personal web pages, and local imap/pop folders to be unavailabl

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Emergency DNS upgrade

rgb — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:51:58 -0400

Chaos will be down for 30 minutes at 8PM this evening to upgrade the DNS server. The backup server should take over with minor delays.

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Email access restored

tnt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:56:02 -0400

Email slowed to a halt this afternoon. The system was allowed to quiesce at
its own pace to prevent damage to mailboxes and restarted a little after

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Slow Email

rgb — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:32:59 -0400

Email access has been slow all morning. We are investigating. Those with large (>500MB) inboxes may not be able to open their email.

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Power failure and web outage

rgb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:32:25 -0400

There was a major power outage at LDEO Monday at 1850. The UPS that powers our website and part of the mass store failed and took itself offline.

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People Pages Migration

mahdad — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:51:51 -0400

Please do not update your profiles in http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/directory
starting today Monday June 16th until this Thursday June 18, as we are

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Maintenance On the Commodity Internet Circuit

rgb — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:34:45 -0400

CUIT has informed us that Qwest will be performing maintenance on the commodity internet circuit from Nevis Labs between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 26th. This

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Email Running On Backup Front End

mahdad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:52:05 -0400

Our commercial anti-spam email box has failed and we have switched to a backup email processing front end.

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Slow Incoming Email

mahdad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:46:50 -0400

We were having problems with the incoming email. It was either very slow or not being accepted. In almost

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Power Outage

mahdad — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:01:21 -0400

A UPS in the Ocean computer room failed during a short power outage. It
was replaced within an hour. Some home directories in Ocean were
unavailable during the outage.

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Phishing Spam emails

tnt — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:47:36 -0400

Recently, Columbia University has been the target of a "phishing" attack. Identity theft scams are becoming more sophisticated -- Columbia affiliates have received messages instruct

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New Matlab Server

mahdad — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:04:32 -0400

LDEO matlab license server has a new home. You will need to replace your
license.dat file with the new server's information. We will be phasing out

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LDEO mail server slow

tnt — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:04:56 -0400

The Main LDEO mail server is currently under heavy load and some users with large inboxes are having problems reading mail. It is expected that the problem will abate as people leave th

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More SPAM Bounces

mahdad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:40 -0400

We are aware of a new SPAM problem that has the effect of dumping hundreds of MAILER-DAEMON bounced or rejected messages into a user's inbox.

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LDEO E-Mail Inboxes

mahdad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:01:41 -0500

We are cleaning out the mail spool directory for the main LDEO mail server. Mail for inactive accounts will be saved elsewhere. We believe this change will be transparent to everyone.

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Email Server Restored

tnt — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:51:48 -0500

Update on the LDEO email server: Mail has been restored as of 12:44AM Thursday 12/20/07. You should now be able to read and send mail.

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Mail Server Restoring

tnt — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:30:48 -0500

Update on the LDEO email server: The restore is continuing. It will not finish until Saturday morning.

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Mail Server Update

tnt — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:10:48 -0500

Mail spool filesystem corruption caused the crash this morning. We are still trying to salvage the filesystem. If this fails we will have to restore from our backups.

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LDEO Email Server Crashed

tnt — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:10:48 -0500

The LDEO email server has crashed for unknown reasons. We are investigating and more will be posted as we figure out what's happening.

Fri Dec 21 04:39:58 2007:

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CU Network Update

mahdad — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:46:48 -0500

Yesterday prior to the 10PM scheduled CU router replacement, the defective router crashed at about 4:40PM and our Verizon 100Mbit circuit to CU failed independently at about 5:35PM.

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CU Network

tnt — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:09:48 -0500

The 100Mbps connection between Morningside campus and Lamont is currently down. This is due to a circuit problem with our provider, Verizon.

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mahdad — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:09:48 -0500

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