I thought this was pretty cool: Eskimo-Aleut languages

     Kernel upgrades are completed.  Sorry it took longer to get some of the virtual private servers up than normal.  One of the physical servers failed to come back up into the normal run level, it booted but systemd hung (which unfortunately it sometimes does though this is not frequent on the physical servers).

     I will be performing a kernel upgrade tonight starting at 11pm, expecting to finish by 11:30pm.  Expected downtime for most services less than ten minutes, yacy.eskimo.com may take as much as 45 minutes owing to the rebuilding of the database after reboot.

     This upgrade will affect all of Eskimo North’s services, shell accounts, UUCP, e-mail, web hosting, mail lists, and virtual private servers.

     It will also affect our free services, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.

     The fax machine has been repaired so you can send me faxes now if that is your preferred method of communicating.

     Kernel upgrades are all completed except for Manjaro (did not have time to finish compiling), it will be done later this morning.

     Will be attempting an upgrade to kernel 6.1.22 tonight starting at 11pm.  Expect to be finished at least with the reboots by 11:30pm and should have all NIS and NFS dependencies restored by midnight if not sooner.  Interruptions of individual services should not exceed about ten minutes with the exception of the Yacy search engine, https://yacy.eskimo.com/, this because Yacy rebuilds it’s database after each reboot and this process takes in excess of half an hour.

     This will affect all Eskimo North services including virtual private servers, shell servers, e-mail, web hosting, and our free services including https://friendica.eskimo.com, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.

     The 6.1.22 kernel has some minor fixes relative to the 6.1.20 kernel we are presently running so I do not expect any significant operational changes.

     Kernel upgrades are completed.  Ran into a few minor software issues on some machines but all are resolved now.

     We will be upgrading our server kernels on Saturday the 18th starting at 11pm Pacific Daylight Time.  Expected downtime is about ten minutes per service with the exception of Yacy which can take half an hour or longer to rebuild database after a reboot.

     This will affect all of our services, free and non-free, virtual private servers, shell services, e-mail, and web hosting.  The free services are the fediverse services, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.

     I had announced previously plans to retire manjaro as it was not getting any use, but in the last three months three people have started using it, therefore I do not intend to retire it at this point.

     On another note, the 6.1 kernel has been declared to be a “long-term” kernel, which means it will be supported for a long time for things like bug fixes and security fixes.  I am very happy about this as it is hands down the best performing kernel we have ever run.  6,2 so far does not perform well enough to use in service.  But we will not be forced out of 6.1 any time soon for security reasons, so this is good news.

     A customer had an issue with a CGI that was part of his website not being found.

     I found a configuration error in our website where the CGI directory was defined globally rather than just for our website causing the server to look in the wrong place for CGI scripts.  This is now fixed.

     Hopefully without any unintended side effects.

     If you are experiencing any CGI issues, please contact support@eskimo.com and let us know.