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 ------------- 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