Beginning at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, TSO will patch the systems listed below as part of our regular system maintenance. This will affect the users of the CoC VPN, UNIX and Windows printing that use the print server printhost.cc.gatech.edu, PXE booting for Red Hat reloads, and the home directories listed below, as those services will be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance period. In addition, any systems that mount /usr/local from trantor.cc.gatech.edu will also be affected. This maintenance is expected to be completed by 8:00 PM, January 6.

Affected servers/services:
camille.cc.gatech.edu, Unix/Windows print server
mores.cc.gatech.edu, TSO core server and VPN authentication server
neotrantor.cc.gatech.edu, faculty/staff home directory server
polymorph.cc.gatech.edu, student/enterprise kickstart server
queeg.cc.gatech.edu, TSO core server
radole.cc.gatech.edu, TSO core server
solaria.cc.gatech.edu, redundant DNS secondary
trantor.cc.gatech.edu, faculty/staff home directory server
usul.cc.gatech.edu, redundant YP server

Affected home directories:
/ac291
/ac291/app
/ac42
/hc269
/hc280/hc284
/hc281
/hc282
/hc283
/hc286
/hc286
/hc287
/hc288
/hc288/ae51
/hc288/ae52
/hc288/hc280
/hc288/hc280
/hc288/hc284
/hc288/hc285
/hc289
/hc290
/hc291
/hc292
/hc293
/hc294
/hc295
/hc295/hm43
/hc295/ht15
/hc295/hu18
/hc298
/hc299
/hc299/hc460
/hc299/hc461
/hc299new
/hc390
/hc390/ac26
/hg173/ag151
/hu15/hc26

Update: The patching of usul.cc.gatech.edu was not completed until 8:15 PM, January 6. The patching of solaria.cc.gatech.edu and mores.cc.gatech.edu was not completed until 8:30 PM, January 6. Trantor.cc.gatech.edu and scouter.cc.gatech.edu were not patched; they will be rescheduled for a later date.

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