System Administrator Announcements
Summer Office Hours
Friday, July 28th, 2006
1:46p.m.The summer office hours are tentatively 9am-3pm until further notice.
Webserver Upgraded
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
2:39p.m.The webserver has been upgraded to PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Please ensure that your exsting scripts still work under the new software.
Off-campus FTP Blocked
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
01:18a.m.

Off-campus anonymous access to FTP on willow.cse.unr.edu has been blocked. Please use SFTP for off-campus access to the files in “/ftp”.

Free Microsoft Software
Monday, December 5th, 2005
1:49p.m.

Microsoft is offering Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions free to various groups (including students) for one year. For more information and to download the software, please visit the Microsoft Express Editions homepage for more information.

Secure E-mail Access
Monday, December 5th, 2005
1:46p.m.

All e-mail clients accessing mail.cse.unr.edu must use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections for both IMAP and POP3 connections. Please see the SSL Connection Information page for more information.

Grad Lab Computers Upgraded to Fedora Core 2
Monday, December 5th, 2005
1:37p.m.

We have upgraded the Linux systems lab1 - lab 17 to Fedora Core 2. All other machines, including remote1-3 and pinon, still have Redhat 9 installed. Eventually, we will upgrade the remaining machines in the lab. Please make sure that your programs function in Fedora Core 2 and report any problems to us so that we can make the final transition as smooth as possible.

Computer Science & Engineering Login Servers
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
4:58p.m.

The login servers for the for the department have changed. Login restrictions are in effect on the mail server pinon.cse.unr.edu. If you are using mail filters, they still work - only SSH logins have been disabled.

The following are the login servers that can be accessed from outside the campus network:

  • pine.cse.unr.edu / cse.unr.edu - Linux/Fedora Core 4
  • banyan.cse.unr.edu - Solaris 10
  • sequoia.cse.unr.edu - FreeBSD 5.4

Resource limits are in place for each user to prevent spinning, fork() bombs, and memory consumption from impacting other users. If you need more resources than are allowed on these servers, login to remote1-3 and run your program from there.

Domain Change
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
4:58p.m.

The department domain name has been changed from cs.unr.edu to cse.unr.edu. Both DNS entries point to the pinon server and not the banyan server. Secure connections - such as those used with SSH - will complain about the new domain. To resolve this issue, delete the existing cs.unr.edu encryption/security key and then connect to cse.unr.edu. Additionally, the web server has been converted to the new domain.

Grad Lab Moved
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
4:57p.m.

The graduate computing lab has moved to SEM 248. Please see the office or one of the faculty for the combination to the new location.

Webmail Change
Friday, October 7th, 2005
12:36a.m.

The addition of SSL to the mail.cse.unr.edu server does not allow access from the old UNR webmail site. Please use the new webmail site: https://wolfmail.unr.edu/.

SSL for E-mail
Friday, October 7th, 2005
12:35a.m.

The mail server mail.cse.unr.edu now requires Secure SSL for IMAP and POP3 connections. For more information, please visit http://www.cse.unr.edu/email/.

Pinon Logins
Friday, October 7th, 2005
12:34a.m.

Pinon is no longer a login server. Banyan must be used for all logins.

Pinon Reloaded
Friday, October 7th, 2005
12:29a.m.

The Pinon server has been reloaded. Some e-mail was lost in the process.

Server Redirection
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
3:14p.m.

The CSE DNS entry for cs.unr.edu now points to pinon.cs.unr.edu instead of banyan.cs.unr.edu. SSH and other secure conection programs will complain about using the wrong security/encryption key for the server. To correct this, delete the existing cs.unr.edu key and connect to cs.unr.edu again. This will acquire the new key and eliminate the problem.

No Software Development on Computer Science & Engineering Servers
Saturday, August 14th, 2004
2:12p.m.

There are various other systems on which to perform software development remotely, using SSH:

  • Linux systems: remote1, remote2, remote3
  • Sun systems: gum
  • Dual-boot systems in SEM 252 (subject to reboot without notice): lab1 - lab16
MySQL Help
Friday, August 13th, 2004
3:15p.m.

For help using MySQL, please visit the Webpage Scripting Help Section.

GID Update
Thursday, August 12th, 2004
5:44p.m.

The GIDs for all CSE users have been updated to the permissions 500 to make them compatible with Linux.

Web Server Change
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
2:01p.m.

The web server has been moved to new hardware. Additionally, the MySQL server has been changed. Webpages are now stored in the "public_html" of the user home directory.

SSH1 Protocols Disabled
Friday, August 22nd, 2003
3:17p.m.

Connections using the SSH1 protocol have been disabled. If you are unable to connect to the servers, please upgrade the secure shell client you are using from the Remote Access Software Section.

Server Service Migration
Monday, August 11th, 2003
5:44p.m.

The existing services (web, e-mail, FTP, samba) running on the CSE server have been migrated to separate machines.

Telnet Disabled
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003
2:01p.m.

Telnet access has been disabled on the server pinon.cs.unr.edu. Please use SSH or PuTTY for remote access to the servers, which may be downloaded from the Remote Access Software Section.

E-mail Location Changed
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003
3:27p.m.

The mail partition is no longer stored on the ponderosa server. Therefore, e-mail must now be accessed in one of the following ways:

  • Use “mutt”, “pine” or “emacs” to read mail directly from banyan.cs.unr.edu or pinon.cs.unr.edu
  • Configure your email client for POP3 or IMAP e-mail