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Upgraded to Ejabberd 1.1.0!

Published on 28. April 2006 in System Administration. 0 Comments

Finally the upgrade was successful. Thanks goes out to Alexey Shchepin who could read the log files, and for those who does not know, he is also the main developer of ejabberd.

The upgrade problem was related to the fact that we earlier tested out a two node cluster, and now one node has been offline (terminated), thus removed uncleanly. Even if the node was removed it still existed in the database, and needed to be cleaned manually before the upgrade.  I have been looking for information about how to do this for a while because I was aware of the dead node, but did not think that had anything to do with the upgrade. Maybe I should type a quick howto for ejabberd.jabber.ru?

In any case I am happy the upgrade was a success! :)

Easter is over, now I go to work!

Published on 18. April 2006 in System Administration. 2 Comments

Finally the easter vacation is over and I am back to work. I am now starting to asess the problems we have had this easter and getting these sorted. It is not easy to do work on narrow cellphone lines so I am glad to be back in civilization. These days I am wondering about migrating to another server that is more stable but this is currently running mail on windows so I have to migrate and reinstall it first. This might be the best way to get a better uptime. Sorry for all the problems this easter and I promise that I will do what I can to get these problems fixed!

We have switched ISP

Published on 1. April 2006 in System Administration and Uptime. 12 Comments

Yesterday we switched ISP and had about 15 minutes downtime. Lets hope the new internet connection is as stable as the old one :)

Kernel upgrade and MSN-beta removal

Published on 10. February 2006 in System Administration. 2 Comments

We need to reboot the firewall and www.jabber.no today because of an important kernel upgrade. There is some vulnerabilities in the kernel that need immediate attention. Will also remove msn-beta today, so all users must convert to the msn.jabber.no transport.

The reboot will be announced for connected users with an administrator message. The reboot will be done this morning / early afternoon CET.

MSN Transport problems

Published on 7. February 2006 in System Administration and Transports. 0 Comments

There was some problems this morning, I woke up to a memory eating transport and the server was very slow. After som tests I found out that the problem was my own msn account. Every time I logged on the transport stalled, but as long as I kept from logging on everything was ok. So now I will test with the msn-beta transport to find the error and in the meantime keep from logging on the msn transport.

At least things seems to be working better now! :)

Firewall restart

Published on 3. February 2006 in System Administration and Uptime. 0 Comments

We had to restart the firewall today and therefor the service was unavailable for a little while. When it was restarting I reconfigured ejabberd and put in a couple of new modulse that is supposed to give us some more statistics to put out on the web page. Will be getting back to this soon.

Other than this there is nothing much to report. This weekend I will maybe move msn.jabber.no over to the svn version but I have to see if I have the time. Also we probably should run both double up a few days so people can migrate over.
Have a nice weekend! :D

MSN Upgraded

Published on 23. January 2006 in System Administration. 1 Comment

There was a problem with the MSN transport today, seemed hung up in a loop. I upgraded it to version 0.10.3 to fix the problem and it seems to be running smooth again now. Thanks to Martin Groth for reporting the problem to me.

Will also just remind everyone that 0.11 is coming along on msn-beta.jabber.no. There is support for file sending and receiving at the momemt, although sending is a litt unstable. Not so long till we upgrade! :)