2008/8/1 Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What follows below is a recounting of the Great Gerolde Breakage of > '08. Details are provided by eyewitness accounts, and names have been > changed to protect the innocent. > > It was a dark and gloomy night, that Thursday. I had come home late, > in a bit of a dour mood, and had been drinking a bit. I sat down at my > computer to check some emails and do some things before bed. When I > concluded my events for the night, I decided it was time to -Syu and > reboot. So I closed everything down except one terminal. The events > below were all internal monologue: > > Hmm, Syu time. Woah, that's a lot of packages.... ah well. ENTER > Huh, why do I have apache on this laptop? I'll have to remove that later. > Hmm... mailman? I KNOW I didn't install that... what the? OH MY GOD > THIS IS GEROLDE! > > I immediately Ctrl-C'd because I had a "sudo reboot" queued up for > when the -Syu finished. I paused for a moment, kicking myself for > doing that. I checked apache, and it was still running. ftp was > working too. > > Ok, good. Exit SSH. Let me -Syu locally. > > Re-ssh to gerolde... immediate "permission denied". Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. > > Yeah, I Ctrl-C'd before a kerberos upgrade was finished. This broke > ssh, and something else goofy broke mailman. > > I emailed Dale, and he fixed SSH in the morning (whew, thanks a lot > Dale). Mailman was a bit harder, but considering everything was down > already, we switched from exim to postfix, as we'd been talking about > it for ages. Hooray for silver linings! > > So. It's all back up now. Mailman is working, postfix is working, and > everything else should be in working order. If something is broken, > please let me know. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > Gerolde, hacked by phrak
Well written and all but I seriously think we should forward this to Skoal for some bardification. =) Well done! Now you can get the hacked by phrak t-shirt! Dusty
