And it’s ice-cream and jelly and a punch in the belly. How much can you throw over the walls?

[reddragdiva]

I got the Solaris net boot to work properly. I didn't change anything, but I did (a) reboot the boot server (channelling my inner NT admin) (b) run snoop on the intended victim. Now upgrading the server on a console line that eats several VT100 screen control characters, which makes for fun running a curses-based installer. This thing is supposed to be pushed into live ASAP too.

It annoys my inner Unix supremacist how many Solaris problems clear up with a theoretically gratuitous reboot. Unless it was the well-documented effect of the piercing BOFH glare.

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[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Unless it was the well-documented effect of the piercing BOFH glare.

My father, while teaching me (as a young'un) how to pull-apart and re-assemble complex mechanical devices with a screwdriver, often said: "It's the way you hold your mouth."
There's only so much you can achieve with a well-placed philips-head screwdriver and muttering "Ye gods!" quietly, but the expression you make with your mouth makes a huge difference.
You'd probably know that as part of your BOFH Glare-training but it's worth giving the plebs the benefit of this insight. ;)

[Hmm, my first attempt to paste that quote of yours resulted in the appearance of the word, Schrödinger. *removes hands from keyboard and backs away slowly*]

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I've heard (and experienced) Electronic Voice Phenomena before. But Electronic Word Phenomena?

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)
After scowling at my 'puter in silent thought and slightly pursing my lips [not as much as one would when whistling or giving someone a "cat's-bum" glare, but certainly enough to say "I'm not impressed"], I figured that the word must've been stuck in some buffer from an email I'm in the midst of composing.
It's no "Rosebud". :->

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a short anecdote from the BSD fortune file...

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

[reddragdiva]

KATE COMMENTING ON JOURNALS AND HAS HERSELF AN ICON AND OMG WTFFF

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

:o

next thing you know i'll be writing something in my own. oh dear...

[reddragdiva]

YOUR ARSE WILL BE LAMINATED.

[pir.livejournal.com]

If you've never installed anything on that Solaris box before then some of the boot sequence daemons may have been enabled but not started before (or started in the wrong order). You can frequently clean this up by restarting rpc, nfs.server, etc... or rebooting.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yep, /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop ; /etc/init.d/rpc stop ; /etc/init.d/rpc start ; /etc/init.d/nfs.server start is something i do a lot when installing a new Jumpstart server.

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Somebody once told me that we should reboot our core switches to "clear out the memory".

They stayed up for over three years without incident. Oh, and then I found a bug which crashed them.

Anything that needs periodic reboots is a pain :(