Website down past weekend
3 years 47 weeks
1 week 3 days
Hello all,
The website was down for the last two days due to an improper shutdown during a server-room reconfiguration at gdnet.
Apologies for the inconvenience. As you can see, we are back in action thanks to help from Fredy Garcia and Graham.
Ajay
PS: Transcript of suspected issue for the techies out there.
There was a line in /etc/network/interfaces that should not have been there. This is how it should be:iface eth0 inet static
address 128.xxx.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.xxx.xxx.xxx
gateway 128.xxx.xxx.xxxThis file is supposed to be edited by debconf and it may have messed things up at some point. I didn't check the modification time of the file before editing it unfortunately.
When I removed an empty broadcast line and did /etc/init.d/networking restart it was all good. I rebooted just to make sure it would come back automatically and it did.
There are some corrupt tables in MySQL so the machine was obviously just switched off without proper power down. This is also pretty damning:
Jun 18 11:17:01 postdoc /USR/SBIN/CRON[23606]: (root) CMD ( run- parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 18 21:37:34 postdoc syslogd 1.4.1#17: restart.
Jun 18 21:37:34 postdoc kernel: klogd 1.4.1#17, log source = /proc/ kmsg startedIf it needs to be shutdown again then there are two ways:
1) Use the gdnet account to login and then do sudo poweroff
2) Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and the machine should start rebooting safely. Just hit the power button when the bios screen appears.
Maybe we should put a sign on the front next to the power button to this effect?
Cheers,
Graham
Re: Website down past weekend
June 21, 2005 - 2:02pm — shiozakiAjay,
I've noticed that when updating the bizdev webpage that the "last update" tracker is stuck in the year 1999. I guess it's still partying like it's 1999. Also, the email link in the page did something screwy to the effect of "business.development__AT__lists.ucla.edu" rather than the typical "@". I changed it back, but it might revert again.
Finally, is there a way for me to add attachments to the webpage (not a link to another URL). For example, I want to post a clickable link to a word document.
Re: Website down past weekend
June 22, 2005 - 8:22am — ajayEric,
The e-mail change was done by me to prevent spam-bots from lapping up that address (with @) and you receiving tons of spam.
The other issue of the pages showing some weird 1999 date is something Graham and I are working to fix... look for updates here :)
Also, we may change the wiki module to something more friendly to uploads etc. as of now, you can send the file to either me or gpd and we can put it on the server and send you a link back to put in your document.
Cheers!
Ajay
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