Guus Bosman

Tonight I upgraded the server to OpenBSD 4.0. This is the first time I upgraded the operating system remotely.

It was a bit scary because I couldn't walk to the console if something would go wrong, but the upgrade went fine. The package management system of OpenBSD made the upgrade of applications like MySQL, PHP and Apache a breeze. I upgraded to OpenBSD 3.9 in October of last year when I was in the Netherlands.

The server has been very unstable this week. I'm pretty sure this is fall-out of the full hard disk and things should be better now after I did a fsck. Sorry for the inconvenience, dear reader.

Elke mentioned that sometimes a message "Unable to connect to database server" appears for a while. This should be taken care of now -- the database server will start up automatically after a machine reboot.