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



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