Hey guys, sage.math is working again. William thinks that Matlab might have hosed it which ended up erasing most of the entries in /dev/ . A simple /etc/init.d/udev restart solved the problem. It only took us 45 minutes to figure it out ;)
didier On 10/15/06, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:38:49 -0700, Alfredo Portes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi William, > > > > Maybe you are aware that now there is no access to pages > > under http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ . I was trying > > to get the sources for Sage 1.4 . Also the page > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ is not available. > > Quick answer: > > Get them from the mirror: > http://sage.scipy.org/sage/dist/src/index.html > > Long answer: > > I'm very aware of this. Note that sage.math and module.math are > the same machine right now (though *soon* one will be a mirror of > the other, which would be nice right now). I don't know for > certain what happened, but suspect that either: > (1) somebody (not me) ran a huge process that is using lots of memory > and > killing other processes > (2) a hacker attack! (???) > (3) after the football game yesterday, students again went on a rampage > (last week the AC to the entire server room at UW was turned off > all > day due to students). > (4) Hopefully what really happened -- I attempted to install MATLAB, > literally > minutes before the problem; maybe their stupid license server went > haywire > and spawned billions of processes. > > Apache was working last night but suddenly isn't. The only thing that is > up > are the wikis (they are all Python Simple HTTP servers -- pretty robust!). > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
