Luleå Academic Computer Society /LUDD/

To improve our email system we will internally migrate from the mbox to the Maildir format. Additionally, the presently active INBOX and any other mailboxes will be moved from ~/Mail and /var/mail (resp.) to /ludd/mail/maildir. This directory is not accessible to your user; it will thus no longer be possible to manage email by executing, e.g. mutt /var/mail/username. Any other programs/filters that require direct file access will no longer work. Management of email will only be supported via…

We have recently changed the directory path for the userweb from /home/www to /ludd/www.

If you have any scripts that point to the full path you need to change this to the new path.

If you have any questions you can direct them to the administrators.

Med hänsyn till ny information kring LTUs hantering av covid-19 vill vi gå ut med att LUDD som förening avser att följa universitets hantering.

LTU följer enligt uppgift regeringens och skolverkets rekommendation att ställa in verksamhet på plats och gå över till distansverksamhet, och då vill vi be våra medlemmar att följa LTUs beslut. Så länge skolans hus är öppna kommer medlemslokalen vara öppen, men vi uppmanar inte vistelse i T1. Allt sker på egen bedömning och risk.

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Today we have conducted yet another user directory migration, this time done as an emergency. We managed to get our new storage system for userdata up and running (separate from all other systems) with SSD-based storage, and took the decision to migrate everything directly instead of scheduling a maintenance, due to the mail problems we have had. The temporary storage we had were running on old HDD-based storage and could not keep up with the iops from both mail, virtual machines and user…

Tomorrow (24th of Oct, 2019) we will start migrating user directories from AFS to GlusterFS.

This is being done for multiple reasons, including incompatiblity with our thin client cluster, performance, manageability, to name a few.

The main noticable change will be the home directory prefix going from /afs/ludd.ltu.se/users to /gfs/users. Please make sure to update any scripts that use the full path as the old one will go read only when we migrate.

Some mails might take a bit longer to arrive…

On the evening of 23rd of June, ALL LUDD services will be shut down for power maintenance as well as maintenance of OpenStack and member services. This includes all LUDD services, LUDD DUSTcloud services, LUDD DUST HPC services, as well as virtual and physical LCNet offerings.

Mail services will also be down, so the primary point of contact with LUDD administrators will be via #ludd @ irc.freenode.net or LUDD:s Telegram channel. Any questions prior to the downtime, or if you are interested to…

On the 25th of March, all systems and networks on LUDD and LCnet will be down during the whole day. This downtime might extend to the 26th as well.

Systems will be shut down on the 24th at 23:00. (LCNet users, please shut down beforehand, as we will only cut the power to the racks).

LUDD DUSTcloud services will also be down during this time, including all users machines.

The reason is due to electrical work in the datacenter.

Vi på LUDD tänker hålla i ett större LAN efter jul och behöver lite feedback på vad folk är intresserade av för spel till turneringar och dylikt. Om du är intresserad av ett sådant evenemang uppskattas det stort om du svarar på vår enkät nedan.

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Det finns även möjlighet för den som är intresserad att vara medverkande och hjälpa till att anordna…

We assume you've heard about EU:s new GDPR initiative. The rules state that we have to give you clear informtaion about how we store and use your data. We at LUDD have therefore set up a Privacy Policy showing what data we store, how we store it and your options when you want to change your data.

The Privacy policy can be found at: http://ludd.se/privacy

Nothing has really changed…

We have finally migrated our first service over to the new compute cluster, and decided that physical member servers would be step one.

This means that our old (not very old though) member server discovery.ludd.ltu.se will be discontinued. It also means that if you were using taurus.ludd.ltu.se, luminous.ludd.ltu.se, or any of our other servers, they are gone too.

Our 4 new servers are…