The following interactive compute login pools are rebooted on the first Sunday of each month, staggered between 104:00pm 00 AM - 104:30pm 30 AM Pacific Time.
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 DOE. The Sunday night monthly reboots are staggered between 10-10:30pm. Cyber Security and Department of Energy. A 'wall' message is sent to every terminal starting 10 minutes prior to the reboot.
The monthly reboot schedule was announced to the unixusers-l@slac.stanford.edu email list on February 6, 2020 (view archive of that email) and March 10, 2020.
The iris and flora login pools are rebooted weekly, very early Sunday mornings.
The flora and rhel5-* login pools will
To be retired in 2020.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2020
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:
- flora login pool
- rhel5-32 and rhel5-64 login pools
- FastX version 2
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