[222EME] Another Test

[Steve Harrison]

Another test. By now, our reflectors should be back to not allowing
attachments, and peeling html off of posts.

Here's are several excerpts telling the story on the recent qth.net breakdown:

"Yesterday the hard drive failed on our server.  Today we are up with a
brand new server and the new version of Mailman.  The new software has many
more features than what we were using, and as such, has more configuration
options, and will take some getting used to."

and later, from Al, K3TKJ:

"Wow  that was fun....It's all back to normal

Saturday morning I noticed the Mailman server running slow and I rebooted 
it. It never came back alive. Tim and I had been planning this upgrade for 
a while but it was not supposed to be during Dayton week.  Anyway we 
decided to upgrade the hardware and the software at the same time. It was 
supposed to be easy and it really was except for one small problem.  About 
25 users had corrupted passwords and it stopped the upgrade cold. It was a 
bit of a challenge to find the corrupt ones when all the files ar hashed db 
files.  Required writing and debugging a half a dozen programs to do all I 
needed. ALL lists are now back to normal with the exception of the lists 
that had corrupt user passwords. They will require you to reset your 
welcome message and list preferences. No users were lost, but digest users 
became regular users on the corrupt lists.

The corrupted lists were:

elecraft
icom
dl-qrp-ag
qrp-l
cozy_builders
acars
collins
cw
dx4win
dxbase
r-390
sstv-atv
wsvhf
wswss
yaesu
1000mp
flexnet
ham-news
ham-software
kenwood


ALL other lists restored and upgraded normally.


So we are Dayton bound....will be there Thursday morning, flea market space 
2828  and monitoring 147.455 simplex. Come find  us, we would like to meet
you.

73, Al"

There are a lot more features to the new Mailman software and it's taken
your administrators some trial and error to understand and fine-tune them
to the pre-incident settings. As far as we can tell, the reflectors have
been running pretty-much OK since Al wrote the note above just before he
and Tim went to Dayton a week ago last Wednesday.

But if any of you think you're not getting mail from some reflector to
which you were subscribed BEFORE this happened, you might want to contact
the reflector's administrator to check.

73,
Steve K0XP
Administrator: 222EME, 33cm and HSMS/JT qth.net Reflectors