Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2023-05-31

Invited

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

Attendees

• Anthony, Clayton, Fraser, Devon, Ed, Todd, Nick, Clayton

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• CsLWGMeeting20230517

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
    • Any movement on this?
      • Nick is working on a message to clients that includes tools for checking their own quotas and instructions on moving files to a holding area for deletion

New business

• Snapshots are still disabled, when are they to be re-enabled? (a2brenna)
  • Snapshots appear to be enabled in the GENERAL environment, but not in TEACHING. I am now fielding complaints from students. (a2brenna)
    • Were disabled at Nick's request, will be re-enabled.

• Need to reboot all the machines as soon as new kernel/patch is available to fix priv escalation vulnerability
  • Kernel is pending but not released yet.

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