melon.org system status

The reboot for which tonight’s maintenance window was opened, has successfully completed. A sampling of services has been selected, and all of them appear to have restarted normally.

There will be a maintenance window on ambrosia.melon.org from midnight to 6am on Sunday October 30th, EDT. During this time, the server will be rebooted in order to boot into a new kernel that is not vulnerable to the dirtycow exploit. Although the maintenance window is scheduled to last 6 hours, actual downtime is not expected to exceed 15 minutes near the beginning of the window.