Day: April 5, 2008

Oh, that’s not good

I got an email from one of the sysadmins at NCF saying that the news directory has run out of space. After poking around a bit, I’ve discovered that:

  • cron jobs, including the nightly expire job, haven’t run since March 18th
  • I haven’t been receiving emails sent to the NCF news account, possibly for even longer than that, which is why I didn’t notice when the system throttled 3 days ago. Normally newswatcher sends these emails which I have forwarded to SMS so I don’t miss them.

The sysadmin wonders if the cron jobs not running has anything to do with the DST change. The machine is ancient, and running an ancient version of Solaris.

Of course, the fact that I didn’t notice the lack of the daily news admin email in my morning scan-and-delete folder isn’t good, either.

Unsolicited testimonial

I’ve ordered a couple of things from Duluth Trading. Mostly they make stuff for people in the building trades, but they make good looking and durable clothes. But that’s not what impresses me the most. What impresses me the most is that I choose the cheapest shipping option, and the package arrives two and a half days after I ordered it. I compare that to some site I once ordered something and chose their expensive express shipping, only to find that while they sent it FedEx Overnight, they didn’t actually give it to FedEx for 4 or 5 days.