Word: fas
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Several outages and slow-downs in Harvard's central FAS Unix system this weekend plagued students who could not access their accounts, preventing them from sending and receiving e-mail and working on assignments in this, the middle of the reading period crunch...
According to FAS officials, the most serious problems occurred with the "home/01 filesystem," which affects the system access of users whose usernames begin with the letters A through...
...Saturday morning, FAS computer services performed previously planned upgrades on the computer systems. This work was designed to improve the overall speed of the Unix systems. While the upgrade was being made, the systems were slow again, though not interrupted...
...services outages appear to be related to the upgrades, though in different ways, according to Rick Osterberg '96, FAS's coordinator of residential computing support. Friday's problems occurred while technicians were preparing for the upgrades. The system was shut down because FAS wanted to be sure no bugs would interfere with the work...
Saturday's more serious incident occurred in the wake of the maintenance. To fix the problem, FAS took home/01 offline to avoid data loss...