GoodVibes is also now installed on debian.eskimo.com.  Using x2go (https://www.x2go.org/) with either Mate or Gnome Desktops, it is under Applications -> Sound and Video.  Other desktops you’ll need to locate it yourself.  You can also launch it from a terminal, as long as you somehow have X11 forwarded, as “goodvibes“.

     GoodVibes is an Internet radio player that features a number of mostly French music stations.  If you at all like French pop music, worth checking out (personally I’m a Superbus fan).

     In the process of building GoodVibes on Debian, I upgraded meson from version 0.37 to version 0.51 because 0.37 lacked a necessary method in the gnome library.

     I’ve installed GoodVibes, an internet radio player that allows you to listen to a number of mostly French speaking Internet radio stations on Ubuntu.eskimo.com.  If you login with x2go (see https://x2go.org/ if you do not already have x2go installed on your computer, it is a graphical client that enables you to utilize a much broader portion of our online services), and use either gnome or mate desktops, then it is under the Applications -> Sound and Video menu.

     In the process of getting this working I’ve also installed part of the missing gnome development environment so that is also more complete now.

     The “eskimo.com” shell server will be down until sometime this evening. Please use an alternative such as “ubuntu.eskimo.com” in the interim.  All your files and e-mail will be the same.

     vps4, vps5, and vps6, debian, scientific, and ubuntu will be down for approximately 1/2 hour each , debian and ubuntu somewhat longer, the others somewhat less, for backups.

     Maintenance on mail is finished, it is restored to service.

     Our mail server will be unavailable on June 15th between 02:40AM – 03:00AM for backup.

     Found that the entire web server was not down, only mariadb (what used to be mysql).   MariaDB is necessary to our site and any site which uses WordPress or other content management engines.

     I’ve added a script to crontab now that checks once a minute and restarts it if it dies.  But there is no indication in the logs of what caused it to die.  The only errors logged where an attempt to access a non-existent database, but doing that does not cause MariaDB to die so I still do not know what did.

     Our web server crashed some time this morning.  Only one call so I was unaware that it was down.  I’m going to try to put together some means of automatic monitoring.

     I do not yet know the cause of the crash.  We have been hit with denial of service attacks for the last few days but I do not know if this was related.

     It is back in service now but there are some database errors I am still investigating.

     One of our name servers, ns3.eskimo.com, is currently down.

     This was due to a combination of DNSSEC root-key change and my attempts to being lazy in resolving it.  I attempted to purge / re-install the bind package thinking that would get me fresh conf files including the DNS key file however, Redhat had removed the package from the CentOS repository so I could not re-install.

      I am in the process of moving this off of the CentOS6 server onto a Ubuntu based server.  This may cause slow name resolution at times if ns3 is tried first until this is completed.

     Zorin is presently down for an operating system upgrade.  Unfortunately, Zorin provides no online upgrade path, it is necessary to do a full re-install so it will be down for a few hours.