The following interactive compute login pools are rebooted on the first Sunday of the each month, staggered between 104:00pm 00 AM - 104:30pm 30 AM Pacific Time. The reboots are staggered throughout that 30 minute period.
This facilitates the patching and activation of updated kernels, glibc, and other shared libraries. It is also used for any recommended server software maintenance. Periodic reboots to enable security patches are required by SLAC Cyber Security and Department of Energy. A 'wall' message is sent to every terminal starting 10 minutes prior to the reboot with the actual reboot time.
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The monthly reboot schedule was announced to the unixusers-l@slac.stanford.edu email list on February 6, 2020 and March 10, 2020.
The iris and flora login pools are rebooted weekly, very early Sunday mornings.
To be retired in 2020:
- flora login pool
- rhel5-32 and rhel5-64 login pools
- FastX version 2
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