Mail is upgraded to 20.04, this time successfully but I still have not fixed DKIM / DMARC, will work on that later this evening.

     The client mail server ‘mail.eskimo.com’ is in the process of upgrading again.  It failed last night but I think I know what I did wrong.  It will be unavailable to send mail or receive mail via imap or pop-3 or webmail until completed later this evening.  You may read mail via shell mailers like alpine but you can not send mail from shell presently.

     Ubuntu is now back online with Focal 20.04 release.  I’m still doing a bit of clean-up but it should be stable and usable at this point.

     I am going to make a second attempt at upgrading the mail server starting at around 6PM tonight.  I believe I know what I did wrong to cause it to fail the first time.  If all goes well there will be only minimal downtime (a minute or so to reboot).  If all doesn’t go well there will be 45 minutes or so to restore from backups again.

     Ubuntu is still in the process of upgrading.  Probably another two hours or so to go, around 6PM I am estimating.  The 20.04 upgrade is large, over 6280 packages to be upgraded and close to 1000 to install.

     Ubuntu is out of service owing to an upgrade that blew up.  It is in the progress of updating still.  In the meantime please use one of the other available shell servers listed here:

     https://www.eskimo.com/services/shells/servers/

     Debian, Mint, Julinux, and Zorin are all based on similar code and will have most of the same applications available.

     Mail is back up however there is something wrong with either opendkim, opendmarc, or both, so for now these features are temporarily disabled.

     Our mail server, mail.eskimo.com, is temporarily out of service owing to a failed upgrade.  I am working on reverting back to the previous software.  Estimated restoral time approximately 3AM Pacific Standard Time.

     The machine which holds the home directories and web server spontaneously booted this morning about 9:45 AM.

     After it booted, the NFS mounts on the web server did not mount properly requiring it to be rebooted.

     As far as I know all services are restored.

     I apologize for the slowdown and short interruption of the web server this afternoon.   Normal traffic during the day is around 6 hits/second, but this afternoon it peaked at just under double that and the load crept up pretty high.

     I took a look at resources and noticed it was running low on RAM so allocated another 8GB and then it settled down and ran okay but it required a reboot to make that change effective.