Math Faculty Teaching Environment

[Brent W.J. Mackie]

Just to clarify, you say that undergradland will be unavailable between "9
- 12 am in August" starting on the 5th. Does that mean 9 AM to 12 NOON or
is that 9 PM to 9 MIDNIGHT? Depending on the answer, that could be a
slight inconvenience or of no concern to me.

On a semi-unrelated issue, when one attempts to telnet/ssh to a server in
the "new" undergradland, will there be a notice before login telling the
user what network (CSCF/MFCF) the server is in?

Thanks

Brent W.J. Mackie
2B Computer Science
bwjm...@uwaterloo.ca

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Lori Suess wrote:

> Division of the Math Teaching Environment
>
>
> As explained in our previous memo of 2 July 2003, we will be
> splitting the Math teaching environment in August. To accomplish
> this, the teaching environment will be potentially unavailable from 9
> - 12 am in August (Monday through Friday), beginning on Tuesday, 5
> August. In particular, when the system is down you will not be able
> to log in to the undergraduate unix or Nexus environments, and the
> undergraduate mail server (mail.student.math), web server
> (www.student.math), file server (hooke), and Nexus servers will not
> be accessible.
>
> If this schedule should pose a particular problem for you, please
> contact either John Beatty (jcbeatty, ext 5536) or Ken Salem
> (kmsalem, ext 3485) as soon as possible.
>
> Access to the network, and through the network to the outside world,
> will not be impeded. Nor will work on personal computers of whatever
> flavour or on machines in the research environment unless the work
> requires access to the teaching file, mail or web servers.
>
> If we will NOT be taking the undergraduate teaching environment down
> on a given day, or work finishes early, that will be announced in the
> "message of the day" displayed in the unix login.
>
> The Mac Labs will not be part of this work and will be available
> through 22 August, when preparation and testing for the Spring term
> will begin. (Except for the CS 200 file server Oscar, which will be
> available only through 15 August.)
>
> Please be assured that we will not push the split through to
> completion in August if it develops that doing so might jeopardize
> the stability or usability of the teaching environment next term.
>
> --
> Lori Suess
> Client Support Supervisor
> MFCF
>
>