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.