On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk>wrote:
> On 01/14/2011 04:27 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:51 AM, John BORIS wrote: > > > >> In a troubleshooting class I took where the character in the class was > >> called "Ferd" ,yes Ferd not Fred, he would jump to conclusions all the > >> time. "Press isn't working! Change the motor. Oh the circuit breaker was > >> tripped." Today I must say i feel like I have achieved Ferd status. > > Trust me, every single human being on this list have all been there. If > you haven't been there yet, then I might wonder about your humanity or how > many years you've been in this field. ;-) > > > I probably manage to have a Ferd moment at least once a month, if not > more frequently. Had one I'm to embarrassed to share occur this morning.. > I still remember one of my first big goofs I made when I was in college. I was telnetted into a remote machine (this was before the ssh), and the scenario looked something like this: server# ps aux |grep php Hmm lots of zombied php processed running as the apache user... server# /etc/init.d/apache stop server# ps aux |grep php Hmm httpd is stopped but the php procs are still there and defunct. Ah well I will fix that...I typed the next 2 commands quickly...so quickly that I didn't absorb the error message from the first one: server# su httpd su: user httpd does not exist *(it should have been user "apache")* server# kill -9 -1 Connection closed by foreign host ... *Wha? What just happened? Did my connection drop?* $ ping host.edu host.edu is alive $ telnet host.edu telnet: connect to x.x.x.x: Connection refused *Wha? refused? WTH?* *reads scrollback* *realizes what he did* (kill -9 -1 as root) *FACEPALM* The server was in a building that did not open until 8am. I went to the building in the middle of the night checking all the doors and windows, hoping to sneak in and reboot the server so at least it would be operational when the staff arrived to use it. No luck :)
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