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Thank God I am not the only the only one who has to empty the bit bucket each month, but I am always having to sweep up the heap.
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Servers with an uptime of more than a day are:
Configured properly, monitored relatively closely,
non-Winblows, and not a target of any kind of attack(lucky).
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Oh, I dunno, I monitor my servers (Linux) but not really
closely and they don't go down (okay, one crashed two weeks
ago - a program had a memory leak and because I hadn't
logged onto it for two weeks (I was off work studying for
exams) I didn't notice the problem, since been fixed).
Our NT boxen don't crash either - then again they're monitored
closely by one of my coworkers who is a very competent NT
admin.
But yes, they're all configured properly as well, well that
Linux box which crashed is now more properly configured
than it was. :) (I expected Redhat to come with a
sensible ulimit already in place, it appears that 6.0
doesn't.)
Updated (08:53 UTC): Hmmm, I expect to cop a bit of flak about this one...
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Thats almost as good as my poor CS prof in college. He spent almost 2 months testing his back-up and recovery strategies for our brand new SPARC. Then he put it in the main CS lab and setup all the user accounts. It had been running less then a week when the janitor unplugged it to mop the floor. (Despite the huge sign on the plug saying, "Don't touch!")The poor Prof, his plans all assumed he could turn the machine back on, which he couldn't. It took over a month to get that machine back up and running. (Sun systems do not like sudden power loss.) | [reply] |
Yikes! We had to move some of our servers to a remote location during the WTO riots (fearing terrorist attack) :) We couldn't spare anyone to stay with the servers...and at some point we couldn't communicate with them at all, so we went down to where they are and someone had pulled all the cords out of the wall...they left a note complaining that it was too hot, so they wanted all the machines off. Note was unsigned, luckily. Hmmmmm.
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