[Linerva-announce] Linerva Outage Tonight

[Tim Abbott]

Hello,

 	We rebooted the Debian-Athena dialup linerva.mit.edu late tonight 
(around 4:10 AM) to install a new kernel fixing a kernel vulnerability in Linux 
2.6 announced yesterday evening.

 	For obvious reasons, we cannot give significant advance notice for 
security-related kernel upgrades.  You can read about our outage policy and 
Linerva in general on our website at http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/.

 	Sorry for the inconvience caused by Linux 2.6 having serious 
vulnerabilities every few months.  We will continue our efforts to figure out 
how to fix some problems we have related to the athmode chroot with running 
Linux 2.4, which seems to have significant security problems much less often.

 	-Tim Abbott

[I've BCCed the users who had running processes at the time.  You should add 
yourselves to linerva-announce if you want to hear about outages and upgrades 
in the future].