phooey..

Isn't is always the case: a small benign problem rears its little head.. 
you quickly cut it off..and the next thing you know.. you've got the 
proverbial hydra of horrendous issues..

I had a hard drive failure earlier this week, not such a bad problem. I 
replaced it, restored some data from backup.. and all seemed well.. 
Then, out of the blue... some strange segfaulting here and there.. 
reminiscent of bad RAM.. then a hard lockup.. then another. You gotta 
love UNIX.

I won't bother to blather on about the downward spiral that quickly 
ensued. But, I do apologize for any bounces, or bizarre pks-related 
mails anyone's reveived during the past few days.  I believe I'm out of 
the woods for now, the box seems happy again.. and I'm considering 
buying a new server to replace this poor abused box within the next few 
weeks.


-E