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If things seem to be running a little slow at the moment it's because I am in the process of upgrading this machine. When it finishes I will be rebooting so the server which means the site will be offline for about 10 minutes. I predict that will be about 1 hour from the time on this message.

I had said before that you couldn't upgrade your system to RH9 using apt-get but I was wrong (at least it seems to work now, it didn't when I first tried it). I just finished remotely upgrading another server without incident, hopefully this one will go just as smoothly. Guess I will have to search these forums and find where I put out the misinformation on upgrading and put a correction note in there with instructions on how to do it (it's stupid simple really).

The server was just down for a few minutes, Is it done, or I am I a complete nutter.

Yeah, the upgrade is done. Just taking care of some after-upgrade stuff now (restoring PostgreSQL data etc)...

I see, if you ever need some new hardware to host the site on dont hesitate to ask me for some donations. Maybe even finance if nessacery.

It's funny you should mention donations. I think the hard drive is about to go on this old piece of junk. It wouldn't be the first one, or even the second one for that matter, not the greatest cooling in the case and I think they run hot and shorten the life. The other day I noticed the server had been locked up for about an hour and I had a lot of seek error messages from the drive. I thought that was it for it as most every other time I have seen those messages the drive was usually a goner. This time I shut the server down and let it cool for a minute, booted it back up and so far no more seek errors, even did a fsck with no problem. I probably should stick another one in there and mirror them just in case.

I always save my oldest hardware for my webserver, but for smoe reason it seems to be the most stable. I actually wonder if the people at emachines would believe me if I told them that their computer has been up for 173 days. This is proof positive that software problems were the only real reason that people tell me emachines suck, and now I can blame that on microsoft.

Always trying to stay on the bleeding edge with this Void server I have just upgraded it to kernel version 2.5.69. I had a little trouble on reboot because it was mounting devfs and I don't have the system set up for devfs and I couldn't remember what the boot param was to disable it so the server was down for at least 15 minutes a little while ago. The param is "devfs=nomount" BTW.

When I have time im going to try devfs.