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Jan-20-2004 Kernel upgrades www2-www6

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:44 pm
by porcupine
Hey Guys,

The servers, www2 through www6 will be rebooted tonight sometime between 10:00pm, and 6:00am tomorrow morning for kernel upgrades. Expected downtime is one to two periods of 5-10 minutes while the servers are rebooted. This is to patch against recent security vulnerabilities found in the linux 2.4.23 kernels.

Regards,

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:38 am
by porcupine
currently WWW2 is the first server running the upgrade. It's currently experiencing more then the expected period of downtime due to a FSCK (File System Check). Since the server has not had its filesystems checked for nearly a year, it's refused to boot cleanly without FSCK running its course, thus it will come back online when the FSCK is completed.