On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:38:07 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
(about recovering an Oracle database)
Archive logging needs to be in place and the archived log files need to
be available together with a hot backup of the effected database file
for recovery.
That's what I meant by properly
Hi,
Walter Hurry wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote:
I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I
found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in
an oracle production directory area. Due to a bug in ncdu, (
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ryans brian.l.ry...@gmail.com wrote:
Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08:
drop database Live_database;
Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P
You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of fortune bofh-excuses and
Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08:
drop database Live_database;
Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P
You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of fortune bofh-excuses and
most users would likely not know.
My worst administration mistake? Forgetting to
Thanks, Aaron...Using ssh is brilliant. I have a script I set up once called
bashprompt that I stick in /etc and source from .bashrc, but this could be a
more elegant solution (though somewhat higher maintenance).
--b
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Andrew. I started using colored prompts to give visual cues as to
whether I am on a local or remote machine.
This was many years ago that this happened.
--b
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.netwrote:
I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of
Hello Aaron,
Needless to say, it was a valuable lesson, one I'll never forget. In fact,
it prompted me to use LocalCommand in my ~/.ssh/config, and echo colored
prompts, depending on whether or not I'm on a production (blinking bold red),
staging (bold yellow) or development (bold green)
Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com quatschte am Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at
09:53:24AM -0600:
I blogged about it here: http://pthree.org/?p=2007
Hi Aaron,
thanks for sharing this link. I am using molly-guard since some years,
but the colored shell looks just great. I love it! ;-)
Cheers
Peter
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility.
I found a
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote:
I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I
found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in
an oracle production directory area. Due to a bug in ncdu, (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.comwrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote:
I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I
found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in
an oracle production
Bryan Irvine:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
I once typed mkfs instead of fsck. Well, at least the filesystem was
clean afterwards.
Lesson: don't start doing dangerous things just before bedtime and after
2-3
On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
On ext4 resizing
- I did not put a swap partition on my laptop, just / and /home
- I decided to shrink /home to put a swap at the end
- fdisk
On 09/14/2011 02:25 AM, Andrew Reid wrote:
These days, I almost always use verbose options of commands,
if they exist, so I can verify that they're operating in the
expected scope.
You will neeed graphic acceleration, then for displaying all the verbose
stuff ;-)
--
RMA.
--
To
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Andrew Reid:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
Not me! Though I
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby:
On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
On ext4 resizing
- I did not put a swap partition on my laptop, just /
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Bryan Irvine sparcta...@gmail.com wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
-Bryan
drop database Live_database;
Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P
Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan
Discovered the hard way the symptoms of a failing drive in a RAID array,
leading to completely rebuilding an O/S install and restoring from backup.
Had a
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
Not me!
Me
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
(...)
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
Hum, I don't recall of any... yet.
But that's because I started administering linux boxes only a lustrum+3
years ago, so
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:32:38PM +, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
My worst administration mistake was rebooting
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan
snip
I've never administered anyone elses system but my own but
for several years was
I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of driving 50 miles in snow
and ice with dodgy DC drivers, I'd work from home. Had my laptop, was doing
work. Well, they scheduled a meeting for that afternoon (at about lunch
time), so I got ready and headed in to the office. I typed halt in a window
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:22:14 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan
snip
I've never administered
On 9/13/11 3:15 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
Years ago on my main workstation back in my slackware days, I was
upgrading samba from the source tarballs.
I had everything compiled and
I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of driving 50 miles in snow
and ice with dodgy DC drivers, I'd work from home. Had my laptop, was doing
work. Well, they scheduled a meeting for that afternoon (at about lunch
time), so I got ready and headed in to the office. I typed halt in a
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately
and cancelled.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately
and
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups. Full stop.
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On 14/09/11 08:15, Bryan Irvine wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
jacques wrote:
by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
snipped
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did
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