Hello,

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

Thursday October 6, 2011 at 09:00am CDT (Chicago)

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

Begin Downtime:
    October 6, 2011 at 09:00am CDT (Chicago)

The downtime is expected to last for 30 minutes.

End Downtime:
    October 6, 2011 at 09:30am CDT (Chicago)

For your local time you can run date -d '2011-10-06 09:00 CDT'

Thank you for your patience while we perform this maintenance.

Pat Riehecky