Right, If you are on an outage, obviously your mail server is not working...

I've never used Twitter...

Cheers.

Fer.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:09, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you look at past outages (they are very rare but they have happened) you
> will notice that I am usually quite quick with my emails.
>
> These particular outages also affected our email system, so there was no
> way for me to send out an email.
>
> The outage that happened on February 9, the email came back several hours
> after the distribution servers did, so the only thing I could do was post it
> on the web site and on twitter.  (I'm not a big twitter person, so I don't
> do it often)
>
> Troy
>
> Fernando Campos wrote:
>
>> That's the second time I have troubles installing SL from the ftp servers,
>> but nothing is perfect, so thank you very much for the worthfull work you
>> carry out...
>>
>> BTW, could be possible, for the next time, send an e-mail letting people
>> be aware that the server is not working at the moment, so we could directly
>> use the mirrors??? Just an idea!
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Fernando.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 19:11, Troy Dawson <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello All,
>>    There have been some power problems in the computer center where the
>>    main Scientific Linux distribution servers are at.  We apologize for
>>    the inconvenience that this has caused.
>>    The fault has been traced to a bad breaker, one of the main
>>    breakers. As a result our computing center is running at a reduced
>>    load until the breaker is replaced.
>>
>>    As a result, ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>    <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org> is up and running.
>>    But rsync.scientificlinux.org <http://rsync.scientificlinux.org>,
>>    ftp1.scientificlinux.org <http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org>, and
>>    ftp2.scientificlinux.org <http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org> are *not*
>>
>>    running.
>>
>>    The current schedule is for the breaker to be repaired tomorrow.
>>     This will again take all of our machines offline during the repair.
>>     We currently do not have a more precise time than "tomorrow".  We
>>    will let you know when we do.
>>
>>    Again, we apologize and are sorry for any inconvenience this has,
>>    and will, cause.
>>
>>    Troy Dawson
>>
>
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