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Myr

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I'm really sorry folks for the downtime today. I'm not sure what caused it and I'm not sure if it will happen again. Suffice it to say, I went into unexplored land to fix this today. (had to recompile the apache webserver among other things).

 

I think everything is up again. Keep your fingers crossed and drop me an PM/email if you find something off.

 

Myr

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I'm really sorry folks for the downtime today. I'm not sure what caused it and I'm not sure if it will happen again. Suffice it to say, I went into unexplored land to fix this today. (had to recompile the apache webserver among other things).

 

I think everything is up again. Keep your fingers crossed and drop me an PM/email if you find something off.

 

Myr

 

That sounds like something in the system (libraries or other system updates) changed under you.

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It was acting like we got hacked.

 

Both an unfriendly update or a hack could produce the same result.

 

I spent 15 years in unix system support before I retired so if I can ever be of any help I'd be glad to.

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No need to apologize Myr. I've been on GA for a couple of years now and you run a great site. :worship:

 

In the wilds of the Internet, all sorts of things can go wrong: bad updates, bugs, hackers, malware, bad network connections... Truthfully- it's amazing that anything works. :unsure:

 

I've run UNIX boxes since the mid eighties: HP/UX, SVR4, Sun, Ultrix, Linux and so on. It's all good stuff.

 

The SysAdmin's big gun is always kill -9 pid It wacks those wild processes like Sicilian him man. :lol:

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'Nother issue you probably know about, some of the author pages have issues... can't get into anything on Dio's, for instance.

 

 

Thanks for working to fix it. You guys rock. ~hugs you till your eyes pop out~

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Basically, since I upgraded PHP in the process of rebuilding the webserver, the rules changed on how a certain program function is handled. It's one that we were pretty loose with in how we handled it.

 

a few of the author sites, and all of the archives (story, movie, book) and the shared member hosting all had the issues.

 

We're going to be cleaning up for a few days.

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