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 >> > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [email protected] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group > __________________________________________________ > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fernando Campos Del Pozo Departamento de Física Teórica Facultad de Ciencias / Módulo 15 (C-XI) / Despacho 512 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Tlf.: +34-914974893 e-mail: [email protected]
