Nevis Obsolete News Items Where old status reports, news items, and links go to die...

Major announcements

  • 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.

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