DAMTP Computing News

SUMMARY: Reminder: The linux computers will be rebooting in the early hours of Wednesday 31 October to apply a kernel security update. Please save your work before you go home.

DETAILS: The department's linux computers run update tasks nightly. When a reboot is needed we schedule it where possible for early on a Wednesday morning. We put out a message of the day about this impending reboot on the 19th of October.

Some computers will have rebooted between when we scheduled the reboot and tonight. Your computer needs a reboot if your computer's message of the day (motd) contains the string:

     Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5 

You computer does not need a reboot if the motd contains the string:

     Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 

The message of the day is displayed whenever you open a terminal or xterm window on one of the unix computers. You can also view it with the command

     cat /etc/motd

New comers to the department may not know of the message of the day system or mailing lists. Please pass this message on to them.

     http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/internal/computing/motd.html
     https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/damtp-motd-all
     https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/damtp-motd-reboots