On 12/12/2012 05:50 PM, Todd Littlefield wrote: > On 12/12/2012 10:09 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, <t.littlefi...@comcast.net >> <mailto:t.littlefi...@comcast.net>> wrote: >> >> True... but I always thought it was a massive faux pas for a >> SysAdmin to actually admit it was his mistake. It's never the >> admin's fault, some user did something bad. I'm sure if Ben >> reviewed the logs closely enough, he could finger point. >> >> >> No, a sysadmin should never cover up mistakes. Otherwise you end up >> trying to troubleshoot and fix the wrong problem. We're all human >> and learning how these systems break (which is rarely documented, >> even internally) so mistakes happen. >> >> Obviously Ben is a good sysadmin (from how well the site runs) and a >> great sysadmin for figuring out and exposing the root cause so it >> could be fixed. If any of us are running the GNHLUG mailman server, >> we have shared knowledge. Great sysadmins help create more >> sysadmins. Good ones just keep systems running. >> >> Thanks Ben! >> >> > Agreed... I was just making a joke. > > Keeping a volunteer project running is a major (and usually thankless) > job. So, my most humble apologies. I did not mean to denigrate what > Ben has done with the full disclosure and the tireless work on behalf > of GNHLUG. > Agreed. We've had our problems with the BLU servers also. At one point, I found that the mailman queue runner would be stopped for an unknown reason, so I set up a cron job to restart it periodically. That was a couple of servers ago.
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