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[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     Sorry for the downtime of www.  Aaron had been working on upgrading this
machine to glibc, put the old libs in a directory on the /usr partition and
added it to a conf file that ldconfig uses to configure ldd to find them.

     When the machine boots, init needs them, but /usr isn't mounted.  We had
to boot the machine not knowing what had been done and it wouldn't boot.  I had
no idea where the libs had been moved to, I couldn't reach Aaron.

     It took me about an hour to figure out how to bring the machine up without
init (using /bin/sh as an init), get it on the network so that I could mount a
partition from another machine via NFS and copy the libs.

     Did all of that and got the machine up and running, but the web server
still would not run.  It core dumped as soon as I tried to start it.  I do not
know why.  I recompiled the server and the new binary ran but I don't yet know
why the old one didn't. 

     My apologies for yet another interruption, and this one unfortunately was
purely operator malfunction.  We are anxious to get everything upgraded in
terms of the libs and OS in order to gain greater reliability and effeciency
but I am afraid we were a bit too careless.