Hi folks,
At approximately 1741Z, host faustino appeared to undergo some sort
of lockup or memory starvation and ceased passing network packets.
I was able to see kernel errors scrolling by on the console, but
unable to get a login prompt.
By approximately 1751Z it spontaneously recovered, just as I was
half way through telling the masterswitch to power cycle it. (so I
stopped!)
I'm not sure exactly what happened yet and am not convinced it was
regular memory exhaustion so I am going to be keeping a close eye on
this server.
Apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
BitFolk's colo provider needs to perform some maintenance on their
switches this Saturday 3rd October.
There will be a one hour window for the work, starting at 0200Z.
During this time every switch will require a reboot, so you can
expect a network outage of less than 5 minutes for the local switch
reboot, plus several outages of less than 5 seconds each whilst
spanning tree adjusts for other switches rebooting.
You can expect the longer (minutes) outage to affect hosts in this
order:
1) corona / kwak
2) curacao / faustino / kahlua / obstler
3) dunkel
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
We do not generally expect postal mail, but for your information
BitFolk's registered address is changing to:
392a Bedfont Lane
Feltham
Greater London
TW14 9SA
from Monday 28th September 2009.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
* MurkyGoth sends an email to Channel 5 suggesting a reality TV show with GWB, Ging and Robert
<spb> Three Men in a Failboat
Hi,
If you know any group or good cause that could make use of the
following, they can have it for free:
- 1U rackmount server formerly known as "islay.bitfolk.com"
- 1x 3.6GHz "Irwindale" Xeon CPU (basically new enough to do 64bit,
but old enough to be single core and not have hardware virt
features)
- 2x 512MiB, 2x 1GiB DDR2 ECC RAM
- 2x 300GB Seagate SATA disks (which I will DBAN)
More details at:
http://bitfolk.com/lshw/islay.html
If you know a good cause that wants it then please get them to
contact me directly (andy(a)bitfolk.com / grifferz(a)identi.ca /
grifferz@twitter) saying what their cause is.
Failing that after a couple of weeks I'll give it to anyone who'll
collect it. Failing that I'll put it on Freecycle/Freegle.
Available from w/c 28th September 2009. Will be located in Feltham
TW14 and you collect, unless I really like you and you're in central
London.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"The electric guitar - like making love - is much improved by a little
feedback, completely ruined by too much." -- The League Against Tedium
Hello,
Spam to my e-mail address has recently exceeded my tollerance level and
I am now looking in to implementing spam checking, I am however having
some trouble configuring exim4 to use the BitFolk shared SpamAssassin
service.
Currently I have done the following in attempting to configure my mail
server to use SpamAssassin, per the documentation at [1]:
- Replace exim4-daemon-light with exim4-daemon-heavy
- Add "spamd_address = 212.13.194.5 783" to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
- `update-exim4.conf -v` (this indicates /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
is used).
- `/etc/init.d/exim4 restart`
I then send a test message via a foreign mailserver I have access to,
however no spam checks are made. I checked /var/log/exim4/maillog and
it does not show any references to attempting to contact a spamd
server.
Does anyone have any pointers regarding how I can troubleshoot this, or
anything I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
[1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html#SECTscanspa…
--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/
Hello,
BitFolk is proud to be one of the sponsors of OggCamp on October
25th 2009 in Wolverhampton, UK:
http://oggcamp.org/
If you're planning to attend OggCamp and/or LugRadio Live the day
before:
http://lugradio.org/live/2009/
then do let me know so I can say hello. :)
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
>> I have just recently purchased a Feathercraft Big Kahuna kayak
> does it have a heater?
Of course not. Everyone knows you can't have your kayak and heat it.
-- James Fidell
