Apologies,

I apologize for not sending this out on time.  I have lots of good 
sounding excuses, but they are just excuses and avoid the fact that I 
didn't do it.  The downtime is completed and was finished on Saturday. 
There were a few lingering issues which have since been resolved.


Everything should be working again as expected.  Please let us know if 
you find things which are not.

Pat

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Hello,

The distribution servers rsync.scientificlinux.org, 
ftp.scientificlinux.org, ftp1.scientificlinux.org, and 
ftp2.scientificlinux.org will be going down on:

Saturday October 15, 2011 at 03:00am CDT (Chicago)

Affected Machines:
* rsync.scientificlinux.org
* ftp.scientificlinux.org
* ftp1.scientificlinux.org
* ftp2.scientificlinux.org

Depending on your configuration nightly updates may fail during this 
process as the servers will be unavailable.

Begin Downtime:
    October 15, 2011 at 03:00am CDT (Chicago)

The downtime is expected to last for 15 hours.

End Downtime:
    October 15, 2011 at 18:00 CDT (Chicago)

For your local time you can run date -d '2011-10-15 03:00 CDT'

Thank you for your patience while we perform this maintenance.

Pat Riehecky