In order to provide the ezproxy server with more open ports, the svc-ezproxy-proxports service group on the PIX was adjusted to include ports 5000-5600.

On Monday, November 3 between noon and 1pm, the ce interfaces on the University mail server were reset to 100 MB full duplex along with ports 13 and 15 on mc007#2 switch. The port statistics on the switch were also reset.

As a result there have been zero collisions to date on either port of the switch, and user unknown errors have decreased.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, Ohio State has revoked the license on Prosepero version 2. The only information available is on their web site at http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/prospero/.

This morning, the version of Prospero on the main web server was dropped to version 1.4.

Prospero 3 is on the way, and should be available in mid-October.

Sendmail on the University mail server was patched to prevent a buffer overflow condition as reported by CERT.

CERT Advisory CA-2003-25 Buffer Overflow in Sendmail

The patch used was taken from sendmail.org

HERMIONE had an unusually high CPU utilization (100%), and has for the past few days. This caused response times on Webmail become extrememly long, and the machine in general to become unresponsive. This was apparently caused by the presence of two FlexLM processes on the machine. Paul Monaghan gave me the history of this – he changed versions and apparently the old version did not get disabled.

Paul disabled the old version, and CPU utilitzation returned to more reasonable levels. Webmail response times lowered dramatically.