Shortly after 5PM this evening the following servers will be rebooted:
  • elephant.ru.ac.za (hosting imap.ru.ac.za/listserv.ru.ac.za)
  • eprints.ru.ac.za (library eResearch repository)
  • baboon.ru.ac.za (hosting fax.ru.ac.za/sms.ru.ac.za)
  • owl.ru.ac.za (hosting moodle.ru.ac.za/ea.ru.ac.za)
In each case, the server should be down for no longer than ten minutes. During this time users will be unable to access the services provided by the respective servers. In the case of elephant (the incoming e-mail server), all e-mail delivered during the outage will be queued by the remote mail server and will be delivered sometime after the machine finishes rebooting.

These reboots are to allow us to upgrade the operating systems on each of these machines from FreeBSD 6.1 to FreeBSD 6.2.