Re: *** ADMIN: possible downtime and mail disruption

anyone else find it funny that midrange.com, which is devoted to midrange 
solutions aka as/400... use linux for its' mailing lists.... World 
Domination - it's happening...

At 10:30 AM 1/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Folks:
>
>In the very near future I'm going to attempt an upgrade of the mail system 
>to a new version of Linux ... this will certainly cause some downtime and 
>could possibly cause some disruption in the mail processing.
>
>I will endeavor to minimize the disruption, but please do not be surprised 
>if there are problems.
>
>If a message does not show up on the list in a reasonable amount of time 
>(24-48 hours) simply re post it.
>
>If there is an extended outage (very unlikely) status reports will be 
>posted to http://www.midrange.com.
>
>My current plan is to implement the change tomorrow (Sunday, 1/30).
>
>For those who are interested: I'm currently running Slackware 3.6 (very 
>old) and want to upgrade to Redhat 6.1.  The slackware system is 
>extraordinarily unstable  and I want to implement some things that require 
>a lot more stability.
>
>I'm currently configuring the RH install on a spare hard IDE HD (in 
>another computer) and will simply replace the SCSI drive the OS is now 
>running on with the new drive.
>
>All list data resides on a separate drive, so recovery of the system will 
>simply putting the SCSI drive back.
>
>David
>
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