Webmail and probably some other stuff out for a bit

[Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>]

This didn't get through last night because of a little problem I caused.  I
accidentally blottoed a bunch of config files on sabe when I did the
upgrade, so outbound mail was queuing up on obiwan.  Incoming mail was
routing through our secondary relay, though, so we had no problem receiving
stuff.

Jim went down today to try to get it going, and in the process brought the
mail system online in a state where it just wanted to bounce everything, so
we bounced four messages... phew... only 4... I hadn't checked that until
now.  One was this attached message, one was kathie@cleannorth.org probably
complaining about this very problem, one failed to forward to
hardcore4ever@hotmail.com, and one was a message from a mailing list for me.
So we didn't lose too much.

But now comes the cleanup work.  I have the mail system back online, but I
don't anticipate having time until Wednesday at the soonest to get webmail
going again, or any of that jazz.  I don't even really know what all that
jazz is right now!

In the meantime, do not reboot obiwan for any reason!  I can't stress this
enough!  It's the only DNS server on the network right now, and it's a
slave.  The master is _gone_, and a reboot on obiwan will flush the slave
cache... That means _everything_ will break if obiwan reboots before
Wednesday.  You have been warned!

Needless to say, don't expect fax receiving to work for a while.

Now I'll go bang my head against the wall.

-Dan

-- 
"Burnished gallows set with red
 Caress the fevered, empty mind
 Of man who hangs bloodied and blind
 To reach for wisdom, not for bread."  -- Deoridhe Grimsdaughter

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• Subject: Webmail out for a bit
• From: Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>
• Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 03:37:53 -0400
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A vulnerability was found in the web server software we run.  I patched it
on bobafett (www.cleannorth.org), but when I tried to patch it on sabe
(webmail.cleannorth.org), I just ended up locking myself out of the
machine... oops.  Jim is going to have a look at sabe to figure out what
happened when he gets a chance.  In the meantime, I've disabled access to
that webserver.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Dan

-- 
"Burnished gallows set with red
 Caress the fevered, empty mind
 Of man who hangs bloodied and blind
 To reach for wisdom, not for bread."  -- Deoridhe Grimsdaughter

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