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    Nothing to see here. Just that after months of the board running smoothly, you people decide to break it on the day I decide to go out of town.

    Naw, just kidding. Turns out the server ran out of disk space so the db had a little fit and that made the board software have a big fit.

    And on top of it all, I have no pc internet access where I am so I had to fix it from my phone.

    All back to normal now, and hopefully will stay that way for at least the rest of the my long weekend. I think I saw a beer around here somewhere...

    Special thanks to Seven from the giraffeboard who emailed me the first heads up and offered to jump in and help.

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    oh, and by the way, I see that I have private messages I have not read yet... for some reason the private messaging interface doesn't work correctly on my phone so don't expect a response anytime soon...

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    So now you're just phoning it in?


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    Seriously, thanks so much, McNutty for jumping on this. Have a great vacation!

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    Thanks dude, that's above and beyond.

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    Thank U for fixing this on ur vacation! UR pretty cool for doing it and over the phone too!!

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    Way cool McNutty, thank you for fixing this so quick. Remember, it is Sarah's fault. We gave her the keys for the weekend.

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    Thanks, McNutty.
    I'm not good at the advice. Can I offer you a sarcastic comment instead?

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    Thank you thank you thank you.

    Why yes, there IS an echo in here.

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    Thanks, McNutty!
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    ::Breathing in and out in a paper bag::
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    Thanks man
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    Thanks for the fix, McNutty!
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    Adding to the thank you pile.
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    You fixed it. Over your phone. Well I'll be damned, McNutty is actually MacGyver. Good on ya Mac.
    Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.

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    Mc Nutty I owe you a beer dude.
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    Quote Originally posted by Whiskey and Ryan
    You fixed it. Over your phone. Well I'll be damned, McNutty is actually MacGyver. Good on ya Mac.
    That is pretty hardcore, yes. Well done McNutty!
    Anything is possible if you use enough lubricant.

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    So, apparently, there's an app for that.

    (Thanks, McN. And cool seeing you and others over on giraffeboards.)

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    So what happened to make the server run out of space? Did you have to delete some old posts?

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    Quote Originally posted by Truth and Beauty
    So what happened to make the server run out of space? Did you have to delete some old posts?
    Well, since I had never used this server for anything so ... high traffic before, I hadn't configured it to delete old log files, and there were many gigabytes of them going back months. I nuked those. I still need to set some retention policies or we'll have this problem again in a month or so.

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    Quote Originally posted by Whiskey and Ryan
    You fixed it. Over your phone. Well I'll be damned, McNutty is actually MacGyver. Good on ya Mac.

    More like MacGruber...

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    You mean like less than 4 months of logs was enough to use up all the freespace on the server? How soon can we expect to run out of space for posts then?

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    Yes, the logs get pretty big if they aren't cleaned up. The actual board data is pretty tiny by comparison. The size of the posts themselves is not a worry.

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    (tinfoil hat on) So what exactly goes into those logs that they end up taking so much more room than posts do?

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    That's classified.

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    They log every sexual fantasy anyone has while reading the boards.
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    Oh, well then, my bad. Sorry about the whole server crash thingie.

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    Quote Originally posted by McNutty
    That's classified.
    Are you kidding or are you seriously trying to be all mysterious and admin-god-like?

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    He's joking, you person who is trying to provoke an argument.

    ETA: Past experience says that if we are actually having a problem with the server being too small, we'll hear about it as soon as it is discovered and the community will be involved in making a decision at that point.

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    Quote Originally posted by Truth and Beauty
    Quote Originally posted by McNutty
    That's classified.
    Are you kidding or are you seriously trying to be all mysterious and admin-god-like?
    It's classified for your own protection. He told me all about it this weekend and I haven't fully recovered from my boredom coma yet.


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    Quote Originally posted by Truth and Beauty
    Quote Originally posted by McNutty
    That's classified.
    Are you kidding or are you seriously trying to be all mysterious and admin-god-like?
    Featherlou nails it. Honestly, I wrote a nice long detailed response at first, because I'm generally happy to discuss this stuff, but then I reread your question and thought, "why am I responding to this person?" Turns out I would have been happy to answer the question if asked by someone else, or even if asked in a nicer way, but you managed to get me to realize it's none of your business what takes up space on my server.

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    Quote Originally posted by McNutty
    Turns out I would have been happy to answer the question if asked by someone else, or even if asked in a nicer way
    I am so sorry McNutty. I honestly did not mean my question to sound rude. Are you referring to the "tinfoil hat" expression? I apologize deeply for having offended you. Or maybe it's the phrase "Are you kidding or are you seriously trying to be all mysterious and admin-god-like?" Those were intended to be humorous. I forgot to include a smiley. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into this board and I would never dream of trying to hurt your feelings. I don't know how to say it better but I'm really really sorry.

    I'll try to rephrase my question more politely:

    Would you please be so kind as to let us know if the contents of the logs are kept secret because it would be a security risk to reveal them? Or is it because you think that some posters would be upset if they knew all the information you were logging? Or is it some other reason?

    I would be so grateful if you answered my question. Thanks again for all your hard work.

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    McNutty, if you need some other kind of apology from me, please let me know. I'm still interested in the answer to my question.

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