[mdlug] The mailing lists seem to be back

Raymond McLaughlin driveray at ameritech.net
Fri Aug 29 11:30:07 EDT 2008


Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> What was the outage?

On August 14 our co-lo provider lost connectivity:
> Jay Nugent wrote:
>> Greetings Ray,
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>> 
>>> Jay,
>>> Please reboot the MDLUG server.
>> 
>>    My own damn fault..... I let the bill for my POTS lines run a little
>> too long and it got turned off.  Paid everything up, but the DISCO order
>> got in ahead of the RE-ACTIVATION order and the DSL got disconnected for
>> that *ONE* day that the two orders were passing each other :(
>> 
>>    Anyway, long story short, Digital Realm took this opportunity to drop
>> Covad and use AT&T for the DSL.  Since AT&T *owns* the copper there is a
>> much better chance they will re-groom (shorten) my cable-footage from the
>> Central Office and I *could* end up with a faster speed :)
>> 
>>    In the meantime Digital Realm let me place a *couple* servers in their 
>> Co-Location room in downtown Ann Arbor.  Hence the Nameserver and the 
>> Web/Mail server are now located there.  My Monitoring box and the MDLUG 
>> server had to stay behind :(
>> 
>>    Though I *did* try to get a temporary dialup connection going to supply 
>> limited bandwidth, PPPD had it in for me :(   So this is the first I've 
>> been able to check email in a couple days -- by running down to the Red 
>> Cross Communications Center and SSHing in from there.
>> 
>> 
>>    Good news is:  the new router arrived today and the DSL is supposed to
>> be turned up tomorrow (Wednesday).
>> 
>> 
>>       --- Jay
>>              
>> In response to the issue about dumbing-down Amateur Radio, a fellow Ham 
>> said:    "Would you like fries with that emergency communication?"
>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>  10:00pm  up 3 days, 23:46,  2 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.15, 0.15


After we got our connectivity back the mailman program received a 
backlog of meesages. As it returned to functionality it resumed 
archiving incoming messages like normal, but failed to make outbound 
connection to our smtp server. Stopping and restarting various services 
did no good. Finally I fell back to the old "If it's broke reinstall it" 
maneuver. After stopping th mailman service, doing doing "rpm -ivh 
--force" followed by an online update and a restart of the mailman 
service, it works again.

I don't know if the reinstall replaced corrupt executables or just 
reinitialized something. My understanding of the program is not as deep 
as it probably should be. I followed the documentation to install, 
configure, and start it. Once it's running I mostly just leave it alone, 
using the web interface for day to day administration tasks.

>  Would it be necessary to re-send any messages that
> didn't get through?

If it hasn't been delivered yet it probably won't be. If you want to 
resend something you can proably copy and pastr it from the web archive 
<http://mdlug.org/pipermail/mdlug/> or your own "sent" mail folder.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Raymond McLaughlin
MDLUG Server Admin


>> MDLUGers:
>> 
>> After an unexpected lapse in service it seems that the mdlug mailing 
>> lists are back in operation. They are, that is, if you got this in your 
>> mail box. If you are just reading this in the archive, then I guess I 
>> still have work to do on it.
>> 
>> Hoping we can get the chatter back to "normal"
>> 
>> Raymond McLaughlin
>> MDLUG Server-Admin



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