[South Florida DX Association] [QSL-Net] Status Report From Al

[bmarx at bellsouth.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Waller K3TKJ" <k3tkj at qsl.net>


> 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