[SunRescue] Re: Best wishes for Bill...

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:09:39PM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> 'root' on your first production e10k that's actually doing real work. "We
> use $N millions per hour if this goes down!"

Tip:  "killall" on IRIX and Solaris doesent do the same thing it does
on Linux. 8-)

(I found this out the hard way a couple of years ago..
 "Uhm, the CVS server just crashed, I'm bringing it back up..." - boss
 asked me later "it didnt crash, did it?"  "... um nope.  killall under
 irix does what it says.. kills everything..."  he laughed..)

Also, when killing off user's processes (by "su - <user>", "kill -9 -1"),
watch your prompt carefully.  Never hit ctrl-D too many times and do

# kill -9 -1

I had to drive to the office and reboot the box.

8-)  Any other horror stories?

Bill

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Bill Bradford
KD5LQR - Austin, TX
mrbill at sunhelp.org
mrbill at mrbill.net