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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans is back
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:53:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB7E7A05-45A3-4400-8886-E349FDAF70F1@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinXiGhm5PrfKsdeDFJ8bAtj4ktqrd7ughUCt7Sy@mail.gmail.com>


On 24 Dec 2010, at 3:52 pm, Russ Cox wrote:

> 9fans.net was rejecting mail for the past week,
> due to an incomplete system upgrade attempted
> by someone who broke into the ancient Linux VM
> that ran the list.  Even script kiddies can't get shared
> libraries right, it appears.
>
> I was away for the past week and unable to
> look into the problem until today.  I have reinstalled
> the VM and restored the list configuration from
> backups.

Cheers Russ, it's good to have it back.

So someone broke in to attempt an upgrade? ... Oh, I suppose there
was a time I would have done it too.

>
> Apologies for the interruption.
> Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
>
> Russ
>




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-24 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-24 15:52 Russ Cox
2010-12-24 16:53 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-12-24 17:51   ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2011-02-07 19:48 ` Russ Cox

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