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  • Campus power outage

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    A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Networking is offline making all resources inaccessible. Networking is slowly coming back online around 9:3...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, November 7, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull r...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull re...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, September 5, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not...

  • GitHub Emergency Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Friday, August 31, 2018 from 8:30am - 9:00am EDT for an emergency SSL certificate update. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull requests) may time out dur...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be co...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...

  • Monthly Github Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EST for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    The regular monthly maintenance on GitHub has been moved to Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST. This will be a normal minor upgrade, but is being done one day later than the normal schedule to avoid conflicting with other work on Wed...

  • Extension of monthly GitHub maintenance

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    Engineers and GitHub support have resolved the issues encountered earlier this afternoon and GitHub is back online and running normally again. We apologize for the disruption this may have caused. If you encounter any issues please let us know at rca...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

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    Patching has been completed and github.rcac.purdue.edu service is back in full production mode. Original message Tonight, Thursday, January 12, 2017, at 9:00pm – 10:00pm EST github.rcac.purdue.edu will be taken down for brief emergency maintenance. G...

  • GitHub issues - Internal Server Error and Web Interface Not Updating

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    The issue with the GitHub web interface was resolved late yesterday evening. The website is now reflecting changes made to git repositories as normal. Please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you see any continuing issues. The sporadic "Int...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

    This afternoon, at 5:00pm EDT github.rcac.purdue.edu was taken down for brief emergency maintenance. GitHub announced a critical security vulnerability this week. As a result, our GitHub instance was taken down for a few minutes of patching. Users of...

  • Monthly Github maintenance

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    The maintenance is complete and github.rcac is back in production, now at version 2.7.3. Apart from the usual patches and bugfixes, this is also a feature release. Release notes can be found at: https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.7.3/notes Than...

  • Monthly Github maintenance

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    The monthly GitHub maintenance is now complete and github.rcac is back up and running with the latest bug fixes and security patches. Thank you for your patience. Please let us know if you see any issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. Original Message Once...

  • Monthly GitHub maintenance

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    The maintenance is complete and github.rcac is back in production, now at version 2.6.4. There are several bug fixes and security patches in this version, but no major feature updates. Additionally, an infrastructure change has been made to the way...

  • Monthly GitHub maintenance

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    The maintenance is complete and github.rcac is back in production, now at version 2.6.4. There are several bug fixes and security patches in this version, but no major feature updates. Additionally, an infrastructure change has been made to the way...