January 2010 Archives

Firefox on the standard ms workstations has been upgraded from 3.5.4 to 3.5.7; you will see upgrade and default browser notices the next time you start Firefox.

We've discovered a bug in our SpamAssassin configuration - quite a wide-spread one, we've since found out - which resulted in email dated 2010 receiving an elevated spaminess score. This has been corrected. Only a very few messages on mathserv were actually affected by the problem and I will notify the intended recipients on Monday.

We're seeing a spate of malware spam with subjects like "A new settings file" or "The settings for the username@math.mcmaster.ca mailbox were changed" (a good portion are making it past the spam filter). This messages should be deleted and ignored.

Remember that any real message from one of the sysadmins asking you to do something about your account will always be signed with the name of particular person, not a generic "sysadmin team" tag.

UTS announced that mail sent to @mcmaster.ca addresses yesterday morning between 8:00 and 10:00 may not have been delivered. Mail sent to directly to @math.mcmaster.ca addresses were not affected. Mail redirected to @math.mcmaster.ca from @mcmaster.ca may well have been affected.

Here is the original UTS announcement ...

Some people have found that they cannot ssh to redpine (used for SAS). The solution is to login to mathserv and reset your password with the command passwd (you may re-enter your current password).