Hello everyone!

The second general body meeting is Thursday, February 23rd @ 5:30pm in the CS lounge. Light refreshments will be served!

Agenda
- Office policies
- Upcoming events
- Officer Elections

We hope to see you there!

- Jackie

Hello,

Thank you to those who attended the first general body meeting of the semester last week Thursday, January 19th. In case you missed it, please see the slides here:

https://docs.google.com/a/uic.edu/presentation/d/1HM66quYoGg0wYjXbMtRVEUtfmk2HNl_ZtNd8t1YCEr4/edit?usp=sharing

If you would like to become a member, stop by the office to pay your $10 dues and then fill out this form bit.ly/uicacm2016.

If you have any questions, please contact officers at officers@acm.cs.uic.edu.

Thanks!

- Jackie

Hi all,

We just had our last and final general body meeting of the year.

Here is link to the slide show, read through it!

If you’re interested in taking up a position you can email officers@acm.cs.uic.edu with what position you’re interested in and you will get sent a doodle poll.

Please reply to this quickly though. We’re trying to get this done before Thanksgiving.

Also join our SLACK! uicacm.slack.com

Don’t forget our last LAN party is on December 10th!

Best,

Mac Carter

President of the ACM, University of Illinois at Chicago Chapter

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Positions!

This is the game plan for the ACM Council.

In effort to debug intermittent connection issues, SIGSysAdmin will be testing various configurations with router our current router setup.

As a result, all public-facing services will be down on October 15, 2016. 

Major services include:

• ACM/LUG-hosted web services
• SSH to our public hostnames
• IRC
• Git
• VPN

Internal internet connectivity should still be available, so no interruptions of the LAN party should take place.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, comments, and/or concerns, please feel free to contact the sigsysadmin mailing list.

Regards,
Chase Lee
ACM/LUG Systems Administrator

Sysadmins are aware of an issue causing file access times to be slow. The issue was first reported on September 17, 2016. As a result, workstations and servers will lock up and cause massive lag times between user input and expected output.

We are still currently evaluation solutions and are working towards a fix.

If you are using a workstation, we suggest to try to use the acmguest account for now, while we work through this issue. The acmguest account is not reliant on accessing personal files, so lag times shouldn't be an issue.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, comments, and/or concerns, please feel free to contact the sigsysadmin mailing list.

Update (September 28, 2016): Sysadmins may have found the issue. It appears to be a switch malfunction. All systems seem to be nominal at this point. We will continue to monitor the situation and report on any additional issues that may have occurred.

Thanks,
Chase Lee
ACM/LUG Systems Administrator

Sysadmins have been notified of a problem causing workstations to freeze up when accessing files within user's home directories.

We are currently evaluating solutions, which caused some unplanned downtime today (September 18, 2016).

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, comments, and/or concerns, please feel free to contact the sigsysadmin mailing list.

Thanks,
Chase Lee
ACM/LUG Systems Administrator

Hello All,

Sudoers plans on doing some maintenance on the ACM servers this weekend. Some intermittent downtime of server access is scheduled for this Sunday, September 11, 2016.

Please direct any questions to the ACM Listserv.

Noblesse Oblige,
Sudo

Hello,

Prior to the LAN party on Saturday the SIG Sysadmin group plans on doing some maintenance on the ACM servers. During this period the website, secure shell access, ACM email, and file access may not be available. We do not expect these services to be down to the entire duration of the downtime period and will be sending out additional mail notices before any services are actually taken offline the day of.

For those who will be in the office a little early on the 19th, access to the internet via the ACM LAN network is NOT one of the services that will be offline during this time. :D

Please direct any questions to the SIG mailing list: sigsysadmin@acm.cs.uic.edu

-Walter

Sysadmins are currently monitoring the server room due to an early morning electrical issue causing an electrical smell.  We do not know any further information at this time.

If you have any questions about this, please contact your friendly neighborhood Sysadmin at: sigsysadmin [at] acm.cs.uic.edu

Thank you for your patience,
Chase Lee
LUG President 2015-2016
ACM/LUG System Administrator