CS Computing Services Change Log
Please send email to techstaff@cs.uchicago.edu if you have questions about any of the changes listed here.
- 20 May 2008
- Mail in CS IMAP folders named "trash", "junk", "deleted messages" or "spam" (case insensitive) older than 30 days will be automatically deleted. If you don't want these messages deleted, move them to another folder.
- 12 Mar 2008
- The instructional Sybase server was down for an hour starting 3 pm, a disk had failed.
- 8 Mar 2008
- The air cooling unit in the Ryerson data center failed around 8 pm. We had to shut down most servers to avoid overheating the machines. Email and home directory servers were kept up. University facilities replaced a motor and services were restored around 5 pm March 11.
- 5 December 2007
- Our spam tagger was upgraded. The goal is for spam to be tagged with more "*"s, while ham gets fewer. You may want to monitor your spam folders to make sure this change works for your mail.
- 24 August 2007
- Some lab machines and desktops have been upgraded to a newer version of Debian Unstable Linux. Click here for details
- 16 April 2007
- The departmental mailing list server mailman developed hardware problems at 1:30 pm. Service was restored by 4:30 pm. Any messages sent to mailing lists during this time were delayed, but all should have been processed eventually.
- 26 March 2007
- people.cs.uchicago.edu has been restricted to serve static html only. For cgi programming, see: CGI Web Programming
- 2 October 2006
- Spam tagger upgraded. Number of stars assigned to a message may change.
- 17 April 2006
- We have new servers for Tomcat and CGI Web Programming
- 21 March 2006
- Instructional MySQL server upgraded to version 4.0.23.
- 08 March 2006
- Dynamic content on people.cs.uchicago.edu has been limited to .cgi and .pl scripts.
- 30 January 2006
- gargoyle.cs.uchicago.edu is now a Debian Unstable Linux machine. Previously it was a Sun Solaris 8 machine.
- 30 January 2006
- User Sieve files are now located in /stage/sieve/YourUserName rather than ~/.sieve. Original service change announcement is here. Please consult our Sieve documentation.
- 20 January 2006
- Java security upgrade on Debian Unstable machines. Please consult our Java documentation.
- 24 October 2005
- Procmail service disabled. If you wish to continue filtering your mail, you can use IMAP and SIEVE
- 22 October 2005
- Dynamic web pages served from user's home directories re-enabled.
- 22 July 2005
- Dynamic web pages served from user's home directories, as well as a number of locally hosted project web sites, have been disabled due to security problems.
- 08 June 2005
- Default mail access for new accounts now provided by IMAP (used to be opt-in).
- 19 May 2005
- Linux kernel on quarknet.cs.uchicago.edu upgraded to version 2.4.30.
- 02 May 2005
- Java 1.5 is now the default Java on Debian Unstable machines. This means that /usr/bin/java and /usr/bin/javac resolve to programs in /opt/java2/jdk1.5.0/bin, and the environment variable JAVA_HOME is set to /opt/java2/jdk1.5.0 .
- 26 April 2005
- Java 1.5 installed on Debian Unstable machines. It can be found in /opt/java2/jdk1.5.0.
- 21 April 2005
- Many /usr/local/bin links pointing to scripts in /opt/techstaff/bin have been deleted to clean up the general namespace.
- 18 March 2005
- Our standard Linux desktop is now based on Debian Unstable.
- 01 February 2005
- CS email spam tagging system updated. See Spam Filtering for details.
- 01 December 2004
- Remote php fopen disabled on people.cs to address security concerns.
- 01 January 2004
- Due to a University Directive we can no longer provide unencrypted access to our departmental computers. This means you can no longer access our machines via telnet or ftp, but rather may use ssh and scp.
- 01 January 2004
- You will no longer be able to access your email via unencrypted POP service. See our email pages for alternatives.