FQuest Notice: Linux Kernel upgrade

[Terra]

During the server maintenance window of:
1:00am - 5:00am
on 6/23/01

All servers, except for:
TAZ
PHOENIX

Will be going through a quick reboot in order to upgrade the Linux Kernel...

Downtime should be less than 10 minutes per server...

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Terra
--Wants one of those fancy *nix boxes that don't need a reboot for upgrades--
FutureQuest

[Deb]

Totally off topic I know (and I apologize...but....) --Wants one of those fancy *nix boxes that don't need a reboot for upgrades-- ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wouldn't that be the same ones that don't require any security upgrades either? I think I saw someone somewhere that had not had a security upgrade in over a year but didn't need one because of one of those fancy *nix boxes.

And with that I will hush before I'm banned from the forums for:

A) Going off topic

B) Expanding on an inside joke on a public forum

C) Lessening the importance of this thread

D) I dunno....whatever else comes to mind.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled upgrades.

Deb
- DOH!

[Dunx]

Thanks, Terra - perfectly scheduled to be on a day when absolutely nobody will be playing on my server since there's a Pilgrimage going on. Excellent work.

I could wait until tomorrow to find out what version of the kernel the upgrade is to, but the anticipation is too much... what version of the kernel are the servers being booted up to?

[Terra]

Same version as is now: Linux 2.2.19

With the exception of updating the SCSI layer in an effort to solve some thorny timing issues that I'm having with the new drives interacting with the older drives...

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[trafficg]

to solve some thorny timing issues that I'm having with the new drives interacting with the older drives...

Can you not just whip the smaller drives out and place them in the dedicated server parts pile 8} :agree: :bounce: :lick: :stardanc:

Pete

[Terra]

I'm being told that I just can't win... :P

--
Terra
--Those drives are smaller pieces to a much larger picture--
FutureQuest

[trafficg]

--Those drives are smaller pieces to a much larger picture--


Ah, but is it a picture of a dedicated server. LOL


Pete

[Terra]

Nope, there are different drives selected to service those...

However, I cannot comment much further than that at this time... :$

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[teach1st]

I wonder if this is the larger picture....


Introduction to HUGO -- June 13th, 2001 (http://www.futurequest.net/About/)
HUGO is the 14th Community Server to go into production at FutureQuest! Equipped with an Intel Pentium-III 850Mhz Processor and 1 Gigabyte of RAM. HUGO was named after his purpose at FutureQuest. The first server to go online in preparation for higher disk space allowances. HUGO is "HUGE", hence the name.

http://www.futurequest.net/About/

[Terra]

Ummmm - Nope... ;)

HUGO is already at where everyone else is to be... :o

The larger picture touches upon and encompasses all servers... Regrettably, that picture is going to require far more paints and canvas than I have now...

--
Terra
--It's just like when I was tunneling out of jail - monthly progress measured inch by inch--
FutureQuest

[Terra]

SIX just got snagged by an (seemingly harmless) integrity check on the way back up...

Downtime for SIX will hopefully be less than 30min...

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[Terra]

I am going ahead and updating HUGO as a precautionary measure...

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[janderk]

Originally posted by trafficg:


Ah, but is it a picture of a dedicated server.
Originally posted by Terra:


Nope, there are different drives selected to service those...

[thinking out aloud]
Just reading between the lines. Could this be an implicit confirmation of the highly secret dedicated servers plan being developed at FutureQuest Area 51 :confused:
[/thinking out aloud]

I will not ask anything
I will not ask anything
I will not ask anything
I will not ask anything
I will not ask ...

Jan Derk

[Terra]

Only the Shadows know... @)

--
Terra
--Vorlon technology can't even compete--
FutureQuest

[Terra]

All server Kernel upgrades are now online...

goodnight... :)

--
Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest