Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2023-05-17

Invited

• Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, O, Ed

Attendees

• Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Nick, Todd, Ed

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• CsLWGMeeting20230419

Review last meeting's Action Items

• suexec-flex https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=950947
  • Is there a .deb package at this point that is ready for distribution?

• Homedirectory quotas (a2brenna) - RTs: 1112506, 1288354 et al
  • 100 GB quotas in staged roll out, plan detailed in tickets above

• Are ~/csNNN directories still being created automatically for students? (yc2lee is asking because of RT#1288331)
  • Clayton says that yes, they are. Course directories can be delayed up to 24 hours after home directory is created
  • Clayton to investigate the issue for the student in the RT

New business

• Some significant changes in the planned hardware deployment for the teaching environment (a2brenna)
  • 3 nodes that were to be deployed to the cloud env will now be deployed to teaching env

• Snapshots are still disabled, when are they to be re-enabled? (a2brenna)

• Need to reboot all the machines as soon as new kernel/patch is available to fix priv escalation vulnerability

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