Over the festive break, we will be running a “salvage” across all ourAFS file servers. This salvage is like an “fsck” (for those familiarwith that) that checks the consistency of the filesystem. It is estimated the salvaging will take 30 minutes to run per server,but it does depend on the volume of data on the […]

The Informatics mailing list service has been running for many years (decades). The move to Ubuntu has highlighted its age, and it is a bit of an oddity in terms of services that Informatics run (we shouldn’t be duplicating services that are provided centrally by the University). With this in mind we have started the […]

The homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk web service is due to update dated from SL7 to Ubuntu Jammy (the same a normal DICE desktops and servers). This provides version changes for many packages, the most notable being Python and PHP OSSL7Ubuntu JammyPython2.73.10PHP7.38.1 Any existing code you have that uses these packages is likely to need checked and fixed if […]

List of various services affected by the Appleton Tower power down on 13 of January 2024

The sweb.inf.ed.ac.uk service is due to update dated from SL7 to Ubuntu Jammy. This provides version changes for many packages, the most notable being Python and PHP OSSL7Ubuntu JammyPython2.73.10PHP5.48.1 Any existing code you have that uses these are likely to need checked and fixed if they are to remain working. A temporary version of sweb.inf.ed.ac.uk, […]

In preparation to replace the existing www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/ pages with new web pages hosted at (www.)informatics.ed.ac.uk, the DNS entries informatics.ed.ac.uk and www.informatics.ed.ac.uk have changed to point at the IS (Information Services) web hosting service, rather than our own server. It was accepted that this may break any old existing www.informatics.ed.ac.uk URLs (which has been deprecated for […]

blog.inf content being cloned

On Tuesday 12th of December 2023 Informations Services (IS) enabled the “SafeLink” feature of the Office 365* mail service. This doesn’t seem to have been very well announced, and came as a surprise even to the Informatics computing staff. The basics are now that when a mail is delivered into your Office 365 mailbox, any […]

There has been a unpublished local feature of the mailman lists service running on https://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk which has changed. The short version is that if you used to deliberately use the URL https://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/… to log you into list, you should now use https://auth.lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/… Now a bit more detail and history. The original web interface to the […]

Back in January 2022 the University intended to set a default DMARC policy for all sub-domains to be “sp=reject”. As inf.ed.ac.uk is a sub-domain that would have affected us, and so we set it to “none” while we considered the implications. Though the University has still not made its change, we are now going to […]