Heatwave Over!

09:52.26 - Friday 7th July 2006   (Link to This Entry)

The heatwave that has tortured the residents of the UK for the past week or so has finally broken, leaving today cool and overcast as opposed to scorching hot and blindingly bright. The heat has made sitting in the office almost unbearable and even doing light work around the house has become a rather sweaty experience. Temperatures in the office upstairs have passed 33°C on a few occasions, even with the window open.

Last night we went out shopping and could hear the thunder rumbling overhead as we made our way around the store. We were delayed at the checkour but could see through a fire escape that it wasn't actually raining. Of course, once we actually stepped outside, the heavens opened and the whole area was absolutely drenched with those huge, splattery raindrops that have an individual, physical impact when they hit you.

The drive home was only short, but it was slow. At times we couldn't see the road clearly at all but on the whole it wasn't too bad. Grimsby's drainage system was temporarily overwhelmed by the deluge and many drains were a couple of inches deep in water. It eased off a little by the time we got home and settled down to a steady fall.

So! Roll on Autumn!

Well something's amiss...

17:05.54 - Friday 7th July 2006   (Link to This Entry)

Just checked the admin email account for the other company I work for and we've suddenly got 20,000 emails clogging everything up. What the blinking flip?!? Almost every one is a message from Cron along the lines of:

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/fix-mysql.sock: Permission denied

which I'm sure never used to happen.

We only actually found out about this because I checked the email account to see if there was an error message from sendmail. A client's new server has decided to stop sending out email shortly before their site goes live (and right before I demonstrated how ace the site was - argh!) and it turns out that somewhere in the bowels of the machine the IP address for domain.com is still pointing to the old server. www.domain.com is fine, and domain.com is still resolving correctly from anywhere on the internet, but internally the IP address for domain.com is wrong.

Or at least is was. Ping from within the server now resolves correctly but email still isn't getting out. I've given up for the weekend, too - heheheh.