[LCH Announce] COMPLETED - cloud0.lchost.co.uk EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE

[Phillip Baker]

Hello,

Further to the previous mails (apologies for the duplicates - even I had 
difficulties with the mailserver playing up) this work is now complete.

Cloud0 has been completely rebuilt, and with the exception of Mailman 
and Webalizer statistics is completely up and running. As Mailman 
functioning only affects one customer and Webalizer statistics can be 
resumed at any point, these will be completed during the day.

Restored services:
HTTP/HTTPS
MySQL
SMTP [now *much* improved speedwise]
POP/POP-SSL
IMAP/IMAP-SSL
FTP/FTP-TLS
SSH

The entire system is now running on Apache2.2 and a single PHP5.2 
installation (debian maintained version) running under suphp rather than 
the old hacked-together methodology we were constrained to before - I've 
gone and tested a number of customer sites and things appear to be 
working as expected for most - some particularly broken PHP code may not 
work under PHP5.2 - this will need updating. I've also installed all of 
the commonly used PHP5 modules, so if you had gone to the trouble to 
make your own PHP interpreter under the old setup you should hopefully 
find that your code still works.

Those of you using perl scripts may find that they no longer appear to 
function - please check your permissions - the scripts I've found that 
don't work have inadequate permissions set, which while they may have 
functioned under the old configuration no longer will do so. Do be aware 
that it's not just the script that's being called that needs correct 
permissions - directories and files that are relied upon by the script 
will also need checking. If in doubt, 755 will always work for perl 
scripts and the directories they are contained within, though you should 
consider trying more restrictive permissions on any perl scripts that 
contain sensitive data.

If you notice something is awry or you believe you are missing 
data/services please let us know - support at lchost.co.uk .

Regards,
Phillip Baker
LCHost Chief Technical Officer
phil at lchost.co.uk