Luleå Academic Computer Society /LUDD/

Hello LUDD members!

We are going to deactivate server side dynamic content for the user web (accessible through https://www.ludd.ltu.se/~username). So basically any server side software as well as the MySQL database provided.

This feature will be discontinued after 2021-12-31.

Note that hosting static content will continue to be supported through the web server.

If you need these features, we encourage you to migrate to DUST instead, where you can set up a virtual machine server. If you need…

As you can see, LUDD's website has gotten a facelift! The information that was available on the old website is also availble here. If you're missing something, feel free to ping a root member in the telegram chat.

The webmail client has also been updated. Some personal settings (identities and contacts) may have been lost during the transition, but mail filter settings are still intact.

Migrate from gitlab to a facebook node

It is time for us in the current board to step down and to hand over to the next year's board. With that we want to say thanks for this year and to wish next year's board good luck!

We also want to again give the reminder that from tomorrow 2020-07-01 the membership fee will be 150 SEK (previously 100 SEK).

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.

Se följande länk för…

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…