Harper back up; home still read-only

At approximately 2:45 PM Thursday, 30 April, a disk failure began causing problems for users of harper, NSIT's central interactive Unix system. NSIT systems staff were forced to do an emergency shutdown to deal with the failure at approximately 3:30 PM, which also interrupted service for home.uchicago.edu, NSIT's central personal web page service. As of 9 AM Monday, 4 May, harper is back up and running normally with files restored from the backup done on the night of 29 April. Web pages on home.uchicago.edu can be read normally over the web, but they cannot be updated; we are working to make these two services more independent of each other before fully restoring write access to home pages. We will contact home page owners shortly with more information.