[d@DCC] Technical problems over past few days...

[Russell McOrmond]

   Some of you may have noticed some unusual technical problems over the 
last few days.  They may have interrupted the flow of some of the 
conversations.  If things aren't working correctly, please send me an 
email so that I can get them fixed up right away.

   I believe I have these fixed.

   a) Seems the script that creates the sendmail aliases moved with a 
software upgrade, so my creation of a new list ended up removing all the 
old list aliases.  This showed up as a "user not found" message when 
submitting messages to lists.

   b) A disk full on a partition (too large old logs) caused Apache to eat 
up all the RAM and the machine went into a very bad state.

   c) In my attempt to fix "b" before I realized the disk full problem I 
"upgraded" some packages from Fedora which turned out to be a problem. 
They caused Apache to core dump in unusual places, which I wasted a day 
trying to track down until I remembered that I had "upgraded" these 
packages.

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