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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Tony Smith said:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to offer a public apology for the fact that tarballs haven't been
> generated for a few days. It was basically down to a combination of
> events:
>
> 1. There was a syntax error in the crontab file after some recent changes
> -
> entirely my fault.
>
> 2. we lost a hard drive on one of our main servers here over the weekend
> and I
> had to go  up to Cambridge for a trade show on the monday. I didn't have
> time
> on Monday morning to effect a complete repair of the problem.
>
> The first is bad enough, but without the second issue, I'd have spotted it
> quickly. The problem was that the email telling me the tarballs weren't
> getting built wasn't getting through because the mail server had died so
> it
> wasn't spotted until my return this morning.
>
> I think things are working again (at least for SMGL, I still have a server
> to
> rebuild - this time with RAID10), but let me know if you spot any
> problems.
>
> Anyway, please accept my humble apologies for the interruption of service.
> Hopefully we can now expect a long period of normal service.
>
> Tony

Thanks for the info Tony, don't you love how things add up to big
problems.  ;)  Glad you got it fixed.  How was the trade show and which
was it?

-sandalle

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