Hello, The distribution servers rsync.scientificlinux.org, ftp.scientificlinux.org, ftp1.scientificlinux.org, and ftp2.scientificlinux.org will be going down on: Thursday October 25, 2012 at 03:00am CDT (Chicago) Affected Machines: * rsync.scientificlinux.org * ftp.scientificlinux.org * ftp1.scientificlinux.org * ftp2.scientificlinux.org Begin Downtime: October 25, 2012 at 03:00am CDT (Chicago) The downtime is expected to last for 190 minutes. End Downtime: October 25, 2011 at 05:30am CDT (Chicago) Why Downtime: Our data storage back-end will be updated to the latest firmware. This update requires taking the storage off-line while the firmware is updated. For your local time you can run date -d '2012-10-25 03:00 CDT' Thank you for your patience while we perform this maintenance.