The shell server mint.eskimo.com is going down for maintenance.  This will take approximately one hour.

     The shell server ubuntu.eskimo.com is now restored to service.  Maintenance is complete on this server.

     The shell server ubuntu.eskimo.com will be going down for maintenance.  Expected downtime is about one hour.

     Maintenance is complete on debian.eskimo.com.

     The shell server, debian.eskimo.com, will be going down for approximately 45 minutes for maintenance.  The virtual machine will be imaged with all the latest updates applied so that if a restore becomes necessary it will be restored to a current condition.

     Things will be some what slower than normal today as images made last night are being compressed.  This would normally happen over night, but due to the problems encountered with one server last night,  the compression is being done during the day today.  I’ve niced the jobs down as much as possible to minimize their effect upon other operations.

     Everything is back in service.

     I am going to have to continue maintenance tomorrow.  The shell servers debian, mint, ubuntu, scientific, and scientific7 will be taken out of service for about 20-45 minutes each.

     The following servers are up: mail, www, ftp, mail, mx1, shellx, uucp, and centos7.

     The following are up but the host is sick: debian, mint, scientific7, scientific, ubuntu, and mx2.  These are on the host machine that presently is responding only to ping.  The virtual machines are responding but I can’t get into the host, even from the virtuals.

     I am going to have to go to the co-location facility and reboot this machine and it’s not going to be graceful.  So it would be good not to be doing anything important on this second group of machines until this is completed.

     After much gnashing of teeth, I was able to regain access and control of the host that scientific7 sits on remotely so maintenance is proceeding as planned.

     The host machine that hosts a number of servers wedged on me during imaging of scientific7.  Because of this it is going to be necessary for me to go to the co-location facility.  Some of the work scheduled for tonight may have to be completed tomorrow depending upon what all is wrong.