> -----Original Message----- > From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-( > > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: > > > > > An old saying: > > > Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. > > > > Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything > remotely approaching > > that (or does "home" sysadmin count? <smile>) but its > interesting for me to > > hear the stories from everyone on this list. > > > > PS I'm a respiratory therapist by profession, Linux user > by choice! :-) > > I'd be really interested to know how successful he was in > bringing that > beast back to life after such an ordeal. > That was actually not such an extreme example. Just one that tends to intimidate new admins because "the system" as you know it, isn't there. You're working from a bunch of temporary mounts. It's actually not that big a deal to fix. Just a royal pain in the ass because it always seems to happen at 2:00am, when "I'm" the one on call.. LOL I just finished doing a similar one on an IBM. The box wouldn't finish booting. So I couldn't get to the console. We had to string a serial cable to it, and get an ascii terminal running. It turned out that the system had crashed, and true to AIX, it was trying to write a report out to tape to send off to IBM (they're so helpful!). But since there was no tape in the drive, it couldn't, so it hung. Trouble was, it wasn't booted far enough to reach the console, so the only way to cancel the hung job was via an ascii teminal. Once the job was killed, the box very happily finished booting, and all is well. <grief>. But without knowing how to set up a quick ascii term, and run without a GUI, I'd have lost the server over a trivial thing. It just pays to spend the time to learn to do things without the GUI. GUIs are nice. I agree. There are times that I still use them. But in *nix, there are times when it just isn't there. Personally, I'm not that fond of rebuilding systems. It's one thing with a desktop, it's another entirely to loose an enterprise server. ;) Anyway, I'll get off my soap box. ------------------------------------------------------------ Ric Tibbetts Unix Systems Administration The early bird may get the worm, But the second mouse gets the cheese. > -- > daRmaTTeR > > Reg. Linux User #186492 > "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!" > > >
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