actually i think that user was me that you were referring to, unless someone else besides me did that :P
and yeah so i finally did restart and the file in the /tmp dir was the samea s my config but the config in /etc was overwritten again. I'm beginning to think it's what you mentioned, although a raid5 setup isnt supposed to work like that...
how would i go about making sure this file was the same on all the drives when there's no way to write individually to the drives?
there has GOT to be a way to track this down
still no headway from my end with ssl or jvm, i'll try to work on that over the weekend a bit