Maintenance completed.  The web, ftp, and shell server scientific.eskimo.com are returned to service.

Just after midnight 12/20/2014 (tonight) [correction, since it will be after midnight, it will actually be 12/21/2014] I will be taking the web, ftp, and scientific.eskimo.com shell servers down for imaging so that we have current backups complete with all the recent security upgrades to restore from should it become necessary.

The expected downtime is about 25 minutes for web and ftp and about 45 minutes for scientific.eskimo.com.

Experience has taught me that nothing invites disaster like not being prepared for it.

I wasn’t able to complete all of the maintenance tonight although I did get the file servers and the busy shell servers and mail server.  Tomorrow evening after midnight I will need to bring the ftp and web servers down for maintenance for about 45 minutes each as well as scientific.eskimo.com.

I will be taking shellx.eskimo.com down.  It will bounce up and down several times as I make some partition changes and test to make sure everything is operational before backing up the new configuration.  The reason for doing this is to improve performance and simplify administration of this machine.  I expect the total down time to be around an hour.

The UUCP server uucp.eskimo.com and shell server debian.eskimo.com are going down for maintenance.  Expected downtime is approximately 20 minutes for UUCP and 45 minutes for debian.  After these come up the main file server will rebooted and everything will freeze for approximately 20 minutes.

Maintenance on mint.eskimo.com is completed.  It has been restored to service.

Maintenance is completed on centos7.eskimo.com.  It has been returned to service.

Maintenance work is complete on opensuse.eskimo.com.  It has been returned to service.

Starting maintenance on mint.eskimo.com.  It is expected to be down for approximately 45 minutes.

I’ve also taken centos7.eskimo.com down for maintenance.  I am doing work on those shell servers, which currently have nobody logged in, early.  The expected downtime for this server is approximately 45 minutes.

The shell server opensuse.eskimo.com is down for maintenance.  Expected downtime is approximately 45 minutes.