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13 August 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 10:00 PM the department package file server (ban.cs) will be unavailable for approximately two hours, for system software upgrades. During this time, ban.cs.purdue.edu will be unavailable for use. All diretories in /p/packagename will be unavailable as well.

6 August 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Due to ongoing account compromises, password-only Secure Shell (SSH) access to CS Linux machines will be discontinued at 8AM, 6 August 2023. At that time, multifactor authentication using Purdue Login will be required when using SSH.

At the SSH password prompt, enter your Purdue career account password followed by ,push to receive a Duo notifcation or ,NNNNNN where NNNNNN is the 6-digit code from your hardware token or Duo app.

For more information on Purdue Login, visit https://it.purdue.edu/login/.

6 August 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 12:00 AM the graduate file server (antor.cs) and the faculty/staff file server (madoc.cs) will be unavailable for approximately two hours, for system software upgrades. During this time, both antor.cs.purdue.edu and madoc.cs.purdue.edu will be unavailable for use.

28 July 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 08:00 AM the network connection for riker.cs will be moved to a 10Gbps switch. During this time, undergraduate users may experience a brief outage of their home directories. The move should take approximately twenty minutes.

16 July 2023 — Unscheduled Downtime
The server for www-cgi.cs.purdue.edu died some time Sunday. It was a very old server that provided CGI service for a few legacy user applications. The machine has been removed from service. Alternatives will be provided to end users.

13 June 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 09:00 AM Purdue IT will be migrating the CSORA Oracle database from stand-alone to multitenant configuration. The migration will take 2-3 hours. The database will be unavailable during this time.

2 June 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 09:00 AM the ML compute servers (ml[00..08].cs). will be unavailable for approximately six hours for system software upgrades. During this time, ML slurm queues and data storage will be unavailable for use.

23 May 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 12:00 AM the undergraduate compute servers (mc[17..21].cs). will be unavailable for approximately two hours, for system software upgrades. During this time, mc17.cs.purdue.edu, mc18.cs.purdue.edu, mc19.cs.purdue.edu, mc20.cs.purdue.edu and mc21.cs.purdue.edu will be unvailable for use.

22 May 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
Beginning at 12:00 AM the undergraduate compute server (data.cs) will be unavailable for approximately two hours, for system software upgrades. During this time, data.cs.purdue.edu will be unvailable for use.

19 May 2023 — Scheduled Downtime
TeXLive on Linux hosts has been replaced with a TeXlive module. Users can use -
module load texlive
to use tex/latex/pdftex/pdflatex/xdvi/dvips, etc.
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