[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People

[Michael Meltzer]

thank you, but I like to messure my uptime in years :-)

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People


> MJM,
> 
> Great job, I knew you were on top of it. Servers are not up 24X7 365 days a 
> year. This is a fact of life!
> 
> Thanks for keeping this thing going.
> 
> Wally
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Michael Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People
> >Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 04:52:17 -0400
> >
> >Sorry All, It has been a bad few days
> >
> >I am sure a few of you are wondering what happened.
> >
> >1)We should congratulate each other, rhodes22.org has been up for a year, 
> >their was a down side to this, it was also the renewal date for the domain, 
> >I forgot/put-off paying the bill. Up shot the DNS (how computer find the 
> >site) when down. that is why a few of you got "rhodes22.org not found". Ok 
> >I took care of that in the morning, problem(self inflective) fixed about 
> >8pm.
> >
> >2)Thursdays at 2pm I found the server which this runs on was hacked, bad 
> >news, I was cleaning the machine and upgraded the OS(finished that around 
> >12pm, the test messages) I was able to swap software around so no one 
> >noticed, Next thing I did was upgrade all the software to the latest 
> >version(57 packages ;-). that when the list when down.
> >
> >3)it turns out that python/mailman/Freebsd are having a problem with the 
> >latest version and the network libs, been debugging this for a while, 
> >python is unable to get the network connection to your mail servers 
> >open(that why the messages make it to the archive, but no futher), not fun, 
> >I have a workaround in but it a little slower and picture support is not 
> >in. I submit it to be fixed (should take about a week to fix).
> >
> >Sorry
> >
> >MJM
> >
> 
> 
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