Re: I'll never root again...
From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 12/31/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:37:20 -0600
In article <58uvqc.8rs.ln@lostthoughts.org>, Travis Casey wrote:
>Moe Trin wrote:
>> Ahhh, memories. There is no computer as fast as one that is executing
>> a fumble fingered disaster. You can't possibly _believe_ that a 386SX-16
>> can remove files faster than a 3.6 GHz Xeon
>Yep. With the exception, of course, of when you *want* to remove a huge
>group of files...
Of course - the computer _knows_ you want this job to proceed rapidly, and
suddenly discovers 87 other things to waste CPU cycles on.
>Whoops. That's part of why it's good to use scripts for things like that...
>in addition to eliminating repeated typing, double-checking the list of
>usernames before you run the script can eliminate a lot of potential goofs.
Agreed - I don't know why it was being done manually (or maybe it was done by
a script, but there was something else going on).
>Yep. That's the difference between wiping out your own files and getting
>someone to restore them, and someone else wiping them out and restoring
>from a backup... people in the first instance are usually grateful. In the
>second... well, that's why we have locked doors to our sysadmin area. :-)
Unfortunately, we can only lock the doors to the server rooms.
>I picked up the trick of having a cron job that writes partition tables out
>to a file in /etc every night from a former boss. I also invented for
>myself the trick of backing up /etc on all our machines at work to tar
>files on one central machine... that way I've got a more convenient backup
>of the config info on all of them.
We cheat - we try to have standardized configurations. Thus, all of the
<mumble> gig hard drives are partitioned exactly the same way. This also
comes in handy for repairs, as the replacements are pre-partitioned, and
have appropriate file systems already made. Swap it in, start the restore.
Old guy
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