The physical host upon which the mail spool sits is down.  It is also the NIS slave that many of the machines slave off of so they won’t authenticate.

     I have to wait for a ride to get to where my car is and then from there make my way down to the co-location facility.  Because it will be rush hour by the time I get to my car it is going to take a while to get to the co-location facility.

     Once I get the mail server back up I am going to begin copying the spool from it to another physical machine and then move the virtual hosts off that box.  The fact that it has crashed twice in a weeks time suggests there is some marginal hardware issue with the machine.

     Since I had planned to upgrade it anyway I am going to move everything off the existing machine and then replace the motherboard, CPU, and memory.

     I hope to have the old hardware back up and operational by around 9AM.  It just depends upon how bad traffic is.