[plug] Downtime

[Bernd Felsche]

"Timothy White" <weirdit at gmail.com> writes:

>We apologise for the downtime of the plug servers last night. I'm
>still not sure what happened, as we were in the process of trying to
>fix mod_perl, and we even lost our serial console connection.

>On that note, any budding Debianites who wish to backport
>libapache2-mod-perl2 to sarge, please put your hand up, as I've failed
>a simple attempt at it!

>Tim
>p.s. I'm not sure who reset it, because I logged in this morning to
>check the status, before calling up our hosting company to get it
>reset, and someone had just reset it! So thank you to who ever saved
>me the trouble, I have a feeling it was ether Bernard or Trent!

IIRC, there's a hardware watchdog on the system. Linux may have
found it and quietly set it to something sensible.
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