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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> This is a general "FYI" heads-up...
>
> The lugnet.com server is due for a slight overhaul to upgrade the OS from
> FreeBSD 2.1.7 to 2.2.7. When exactly this will occur is not set in stone,
> but I'll post more when I know more. Hopefully sometime in the next few
> days.
>
> In any OS upgrade, BTW -- which means shutting the machine down for a few
> minutes, installing new files, and rebooting -- there is always the distant
> possibility of unfavorable glitches when things are turned back on. So if
> you are suddenly met with any kind of "Internal Server Error" message from
> the website, it just means that things aren't fully back on their feet yet.
> Most likely, 99% of everything will just sail on through smoothly after a
> short downtime. The people who are doing the actual upgrade task are
> extremely experienced in this area.
(The above was quite a while back.) The OS upgrade is scheduled for sometime
mid-tomorrow morning, hopefully around 9-10 a.m. EST.
> There may be a few sections of the site which I'll need to tinker
> with to talk to the new OS if there are any unforseen low-level DB
> incompatibilities. I do expect some bumpiness in two areas in particular
> -- (1) the news-by-mail subscription database and (2) the Lugnet/Pause
> sets-DB. There won't be any data loss, but I'll probably need to run a
> script to rebuild some files. IMO, it's better if the site comes back up
> quickly as soon as possible and those portions are temporarily broken than
> if they're fixed first and the site is down for longer.
I've been working proactively as a background task to head off any problems
like this ahead of time so that they don't happen at all as a result of the
transition. Over the next few hours I'll be converting all of the online
databases from an old format to a newer format which is compatible with both
the old and the new OS. So if I don't miss anything, the transition should
be completely transparent (except for a bit of downtime).
More details if/as they arise...
--Todd
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| This is a general "FYI" heads-up... The lugnet.com server is due for a slight overhaul to upgrade the OS from FreeBSD 2.1.7 to 2.2.7. When exactly this will occur is not set in stone, but I'll post more when I know more. Hopefully sometime in the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)
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