Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
Ok, I’ve got my Fedora Core 3 CDs and I’ve studied my blog entries from the last time I did an upgrade, and I’ve made a checklist of everything that I can remember that I do with the box. It looks like this weekend is upgrade time.
Ok, 1, 2, 3, “By all means, Paul, fuck with the hard drives”
United States Patent: 6,812,994
6 named inventors. My boss, his boss, the head of the whole department, the guy from Corporate Design and Usability who we had to fight with over the gui design, the other coder who did the main shell of the gui, and me, the guy who did all the fun stuff – database design and implementation, custom widgets, support programs, etc.
I feel both proud and unclean.
As I wrote about in My car, the mother, my car recently required a huge amount of service because it was leaking oil. Well, it’s been about 1500 miles since then, and last night after 5 hours on the highway, I got a “oil pressure” warning light when turning at a traffic light. Oh oh. This morning it was making that clattering noise again. Oh oh. I bought some oil, and threw in two quarts. Then I changed, and it was still showing a quart down, so I threw in another. Un-fucking-believeable – they supposedly *fixed* the oil leak, and it went through 3 quarts in 500 miles?
Even my VW Beetle wasn’t that bad when it had over 150,000 miles on it.
I was supposed to fly to Ottawa this weekend. I had my favourite plane booked and everything.
Continue reading “From the “Better to be down here wishing you were up there” department…”
This happens on RedHat 7.3 – haven’t tried on something more recent.
Assume you have a machine where root can rsh to localhost (yeah, I know, but the machine isn’t on a network where there are any users, so it’s not as bad as it could be.)
rsh localhost "/etc/init.d/snmpd restart; echo 'DONE'"
will echo the “DONE” but never return unless you hit ^C twice.
rsh localhost "/etc/init.d/snmpd restart
works as expected.
Now take a script that does rsh'es to a bunch of machines and runs apt-get on them (as well as on the local machine) and does various configuration tasks on both the local and the other systems, including restarting services. See script run. Now, take the entire script, and
put a
{
} 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/upgrade.log
around the whole thing, and suddenly it never finishes.
See Paul waste his whole day trying different variations, each time requiring 45 minutes to put all the machines back to the version 3.3 configuration, and at least 20 minutes for the script to run. Can you say “bored and frustrated”, ladies and gentlemen?
And to top it all off, there’s an AIRMET for icing all along the route to Ottawa, so I won’t be flying after all.