Lennart Sorth
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« on: January 15, 2010, 02:50:13 pm » |
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Dear Matraforum friends
The server for this forum was just unavailable for the longest time since it was installed some 10 years ago (!)
As part of a due diligence New Year cleanup, I have been busy upgrading the (long) list of programs that makes up the server on which this forum runs.
Most applications and forums were done last week, and the last thing is the operating system itself. This requires a reboot, so I sdaved it for Friday morning, where teh traffic to the server (all sites) is lowest.
I took a deep breath, and rebooted ...
When the server started booting, it reported it couldn't find its disk(!) arrgh!
Then I rebooted it again, by which time it simply went away - and I never heard from it again, until I had some of my friends in the datacentre locate the machine and powercycle it. (!)
Once this was done, It actually booted normally, so it is unexplained why it couldn't find the boot-disk in the first place. Possibly it got confused by running with a serial console connected (never heard of that before though)
Anyway, the machine came up, but now it turned out that the web-accelerator proxy (varnish) I run in front of all sites, had been modified at the update last week, but the upgrade did not restart the proxy - so it wasn't until todays reboot that I discovered this.
Since I am actually at work, I can't spend too much time messing about with this, but I got help from my good friend Poul-Henning Kamp, who is in fact the author of that web-accelerator, and he quickly spotted that the new version carried a default portnumber with it, as it wasn't defined in my old config (didn't have to with the old version).
Problem sorted!
However, I still need to upgrade the Operating System "userland" - but that really should only be a quick reboot. (famous last words)
Sorry for the downtime, but at least we are now upgraded to the newest STABLE branch of the operating system and all applications.
/Lennart
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