[socialmedia] Fwd: Re: Please defer 'pushes'

22 Dec 2020

      FYI, this is why there have been no new postings today:

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:01:55 -0800
From: Greg Newby 
To: pgww@lists.pglaf.org
Subject: Re: Please defer 'pushes'

Update: I'm sorry to say that aleph.pglaf.org still isn't recovered.

If it's not back by morning (Pacific time, where the system is
located), I'll remove aleph from the quorum so we can begin pushing
again. Until then, pushed files *will* go to ibiblio and hence to
www.gutenberg.org, but they will also generate hourly "pushed failure"
messages in your inbox (as long as they are in the ../push/ folder).

Sorry for this trouble. I think the colo center fixed the problem that
took all our systems off the network, and didn't realize aleph had a
separate issue. I've emailed them about it again (fourth time today,
and four phone calls).

  - Greg

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:56:55PM -0800, Greg Newby wrote:
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Update: Please continue to defer pushes. The aleph system
is still not online.
Coincidentally, perhaps, there was a network outage
for all the pglaf.org servers. It lasted around 4 hours,
mid-day today (Pacific time). The main pglaf.org server
is back, and so is our big mirror and backup server,
dante.pglaf.org
But aleph.pglaf.org is still offline...
 - Greg
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 09:11:41AM -0800, Greg Newby wrote:
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Hi, folks. I did an upgrade to aleph.pglaf.org, which is one
of our three "master" servers. Unfortunately it did not return
from the upgrade properly, and I cannot access it to fix it.
I've asked our hosting company in San Diego to fix things.
Until it's fixed, pushes will fail (files will go to ibiblio,
though, so will get posted as usual).
Any files you push will re-try every hour until aleph is back.
You'll get a push failure error for every file in the queue,
indicating the file did not go to aleph.pglaf.org.
So, you might want to hold onto your pushes files until aleph
is fixed. I'll keep you informed of status.
 - Greg
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