Nevis Obsolete News Items

Where old status reports, news items, and links go to die.

Obsolete wiki pages

These topics are no longer relevant. They're here just in case the material in them becomes relevant again.

• The Subversion (svn) system for version control; here's the viewer.
• Nevis certificates.
• How to turn off Java in your web browser.

Archived 20-Sep-2013: The high-availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional single-box cluster. HA is grand in theory, but in the three years we operated the cluster we had no hardware problems which the HA set-up would have prevented, but many hours of downtime due to problems with the HA software. This mailing-list post has some details.

Here are the pages that documented the state and the diagnostic procedures for the HA cluster when it existed:

• The administrative cluster:
  • basic diagnostic procedures;
  • cluster resource status;
  • pacemaker configuration for the very brave.

Major announcements

• Upgrading the cluster to a 64-bit operating system.

• August 2009 system upgrades

• Discussion of Fedora versus Scientific Linux

• The IMAP file switch was completed on 18-Feb-2009.

• The mail server will reject e-mail messages if their spam score is too high.

• Moving the applications directory from /usr/local to /usr/nevis.

• Proposal on what to do as the Fedora Legacy project shuts down.

• Notes on the new mail server installed at Nevis in Feb 2006.

• The old nevis1 server will be shut off near the end of 2005.

• Notes on the new servers installed at Nevis near the end of 2005.

• Notes on the status of Redhat and Fedora installations on the Linux cluster.

• Mail services were shut down on nevis1 on 12-Apr-2004.

• Notes on the Redhat 9 upgrade that was performed on the Nevis Linux cluster.

• The switch to the faster T3 network took place on 08-Oct-2003.

• The ftp server switch took place on 27-Mar-2003.

• The switch to the new web server took place on 23-Oct-2002.

• The mail processing on nevis1 is scheduled to be changed on 26-Aug-2002.

• A new mail server, franklin, was put into service on 09-May-2002.

• Nevis1 usage policy - to make sure everyone here has a fair chance to use the system's resources.

• The list of machines in the old VAX cluster.

• Review the shutdown schedule for the Nevis computer systems over the 1999-2000 New Year's weekend.

• We performed major upgrades to nevis1 in March-August, 1999.

• The status of the VAX migration (last updated 5-Jan-1999). There are also instructions on how to convert your VAX mail to UNIX format.

• Notes from 06-May-1997 on security changes made to the Nevis web server.

Nevis computer news items

• For news from 2004 through the present, see the nevis-linux news archives.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 2002 through 2003.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 2000 through 2001.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 1997 through 1999.