I will be taking Centos7 down for a while later this afternoon to grow the virtual disk to accommodate more application software.

     This could take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending upon how ugly it gets.  Usually gparted does the right thing the first time but not always so sometimes it’s necessary to restore from backup and try again.

     I upgraded MySQL to version 5.6.26 today.  Hopefully it won’t break things but if it does please let me know, either use Support->Ticket or e-mail support@eskimo.com.

     I’m going to let it soak for a week or two and if nothing breaks, upgrade further to 5.7.x.  The upgrade was necessary to get some newer web applications running.

     When I replaced our router recently, I missed two servers in transcribing firewall rules, scientific7 and ubuntu.  So if you have been unable to connect with either of these, this should be resolved now.

     I accidentally poisoned our dog by feeding her a bran muffin with raisins, forgot the raisins where in there.  But my wife mentioned it (right after she ate it) and so we induced vomiting right away and took her to the emergency pet clinic.

     There we learned that the amount she ingested was about 1/10th the lowest amount ever known to cause a fatality and since most of that was vomited back her chances are very good.

     But because of this I won’t be getting to bed until 1AM and haven’t been feeling well and sleeping good under the best of circumstances.  So I will be in the office a little later than usual this Thursday morning.

     Ubuntu.eskimo.com has been restored from backups and is now functioning normally.  I do not know what was wrong because I was unable to login even as root.  I suspect some software I installed may have changed the pam setup to kerberos but am unable to confirm that.

     Ubuntu is currently down.  Something got hurt to the point where I can’t even login from the virtual domain console interface so I am restoring it from a backup image.