The server glitched again today and for a brief time went “on walkabout” as the term goes.

At the core of the issue seemed to be a corruption of the yum database. It’s like if your Windows machine were doing a Windows Update and it didn’t know which files needed to be updated, and/or where to look remotely for a list of files that might be newer. Not the core operating system files, but important because the files keep everything uptodate. Literally, that’s one of the processes, only it’s spelled all Leet like, up2date.

That seemed to be the initial problem on our server going down the other day, and glitching again today. The original problem never did get fixed, it seems. It is now.

Looks like it’s all back to normal.

I hope.

I wish I understood everything. It would make life oh so much easier.

But I don’t. So when the server crashed tonight, taking every single damn website and erasing all of them from the face of the earth, I kind of went white, and had a little panic attack. I didn’t bust any doors or walls, or wet myself, but I did begin to hyperventilate.

Lovely wife calmed me down, but she didn’t know that I believed our backups weren’t working. But I found the files, and I’m restoring them, one by one.

As I write this at 10:45pm Central time, most of the sites on our server are down, and so is email.

This will change over the next few hours. I’ll put on a pot of coffee and begin copying files over.

All files and all email should be restored by Thursday morning.

I hope.

Sorry for the inconvenience…

Does anyone remember the musical Paint Your Wagon? it was a 1960s musical that became a film (staring Clint Eastwood, of all people). Well, there was a song in that film called Talk to the Trees. Well, after watching this vid — entitled Forest Love — which is part of a very Racy Greenpeace Video Campaign against illegal logging, you’ll think that simply talking to trees is just foreplay.

Now you know why they call them “Tree Huggers” eh?

The Perfessor

A quick operational note to nobody in particular:

According to me, a My Space page is not what I consider a blog. A Facebook page is not what I consider a blog.

Those are places to meet up with friends, and say what you want back and forth with those friends. Many times, someone who is NOT a part of that community of friends can’t see what you’ve written, unless they’ve joined in that network.

I maintain a couple of lists of blogs, and I’m tired of testing those links only to find out it’s in a network that doesn’t allow me to read it.

So, if you’re submitting your blog to one of the lists that I help maintain, and it’s a MySpace blog, forget it. Your submission will be deleted on the spot. There are several good locations to keep a public blog. Blogger.com and Wordpress.com both offer free blog spaces. If you maintain a MySpace page, it doesn’t take but a few seconds to copy your new blog posts over to a free blog, thus maintaining two blogs.

If you’re too lazy to do that, stick to MySpace.

Several Wordpress sites I help manage are down today.

I’m investigating the reasons now.

THIS was one of those blogs, and I fixed it, but I can’t seem to repeat my success elsewhere.

I’m working on it.

UPDATE: I’ve changed a few things, and tweaked. It looked to be a server issue, with an overnight software addition screwing up old settings. I think I may have fixed it. I’m testing things. Also, if you have an account with Dreamforge/Access Romance, your Cpanel may be changing slightly.