The Comms Room

WesleyDavid

00:09

Cole

LOL

jscott

@WesleyDavid Well, if you're riding a Walmart Columbia, I suppose you aren't really too worried about someone stealing it.

wfaulk

00:43

anyone have any experience dealing with a developer who thinks she's an admin (and is totally wrong) ?

Cole

@wfaulk KILL IT WITH FIRE.

ewwhite

@wfaulk yes

Adrian

Evenin' Gents.

Cole

@Adrian sup

Adrian

@wfaulk Yeah. Got no good advice though, was a shit experience.

A Dev who didn't understand loops, if you'd believe that crazy shit.

Cole

00:46

@Adrian wait, wat?

Seriously>

WesleyDavid

@wfaulk What's the story?

Adrian

@Cole Tell me about it. Crazy ass stuff.

Cole

wow

jscott

@wfaulk Devs should always be admins.... In their dev environment.

Hennes

Mwah. s/Should be/should be capable of su-ing (or UAC-ing) to admin

WesleyDavid

00:55

I wish the few gems in the devops community were not the exception to the rule.

If Allspaw knew what deveops would be colloquialized to... :'(

Scott Pack

@WesleyDavid Unlubricated pawing?

Cole

Switched from Linux Mint to Fedora on my laptop

working MUCH better

jscott

So this "Mint", it's Ubunutus? What would have made it any better/different? I get the Fedora/CentOS/RedHate thing.

Cole

It just was wonky

Clunky

jscott

heh, I came from Slack and ended up with Debian "clunky" I understand.

I suppose I'm just surprised there's so many fringe distros, I guess.

Cole

01:12

Yeah I mean it's pretty

but Fedora just seems much smoother - at least on my laptop.

I'm an Xfce kinda guy too

jscott

This is awesome how have I never seen it?!

44

Q: How to extinguish a small fire in a server rack to minimize damage to surrounding equipment?

Suppose I have a rack with several servers and other stuff. One of servers overheats severely and either starts smoking or catches fire while there's a serviceman nearby. If anything similar happens in an apartment and there's a fire extinguisher nearby using the latter promptly often lets extin...

Mothra fudge! The guy who bumped that has only one other post and it's -10... WOW

Their profile also reads...a bit combative. Has chat raked this one over the coals as well?

WesleyDavid

@Cole Okay, I wrote the guy back. I gave him "storage 101, 102"

Probably wrote about 1,000 words out.

Cole

@WesleyDavid make...make a blog post?

WesleyDavid

He seems cool, just totally a user. I really don't want to have to go through the arbitration of him sending it back and all that.

@Cole Basically, yes. A blog post for noobs.

Cole

@WesleyDavid I thought you wrote "go through the abortion"

jscott

01:24

What does the 102 course offer that the 101 didn't?

WesleyDavid

@Cole Ew.

@jscott Nearline SAS.

Cole

haha

jscott

@Cole Well may save in the long run, eh?

Cole

@jscott the abortion?

jscott

@Cole Yes, aborting the arbitration will likely save all parties money, time and frustration in the long run.

Cole

01:26

@jscott hahaha

WesleyDavid

@Cole WARNING: RAID 0 has been known to act as an abortifacient. Keep all pregnant women away from your bullshit NAS made from variable RPM green drives and Rosewill storage controllers.

I want to buy a few dozen 3TB Green drives and drop ZFS on it.

I don't know why.

I just do.

Get some janky SuperMicro box

Suddenly, 100TB of space and I'm an rsync cloud host.

Huzzah.

Actually, at that point just get an Amazon storage gateway appliance.

Cole

God fucking shit dating as a transman sucks.

WesleyDavid

I really want to figure out some kind of Glacier-backed service. That would be cool.

@Cole That bad?

Cole

@WesleyDavid yeah lesbians dont want me because I'm a man, and straight women don't want me because I don't have a dick.

Been two months I haven't dated, I think I'm ready to at least go on a date.

Or talk to someone.

ewwhite

I'e decided this is a poor question.

0

Q: Should HA hardware be in separate cabinets?

I want to host (co-located) a service at a Pier1, Q9 or some similar hosting facility. Is it best practice to put my failover hardware in separate cabinets, and in your experience, will the hosting provider allow this? My concern is that if something happens, say catches fire in the cabinet or...

hosting high-availability colocation

WesleyDavid

01:33

@ewwhite Eh, not so good, but I'm being more lenient these days. I think I shall stave off my close votes.

Okay, back to scrambling for hours at this place.

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid not closing... just wanna know how to improve

WesleyDavid

Wooo! Look at my ILO power stats: Power On Counter: 1360 days 7 hrs 35 minutes

Skanky old ML115 G5

Hennes

3.7 years

Next Business Day Warranty with an end date of 1/30/2012.

I keep reading that as day 1, month 30, years 2012

jscott

01:50

@Hennes It's even more fun when the date is ambiguous, 07/05/2012 ?

At least we all know there's no month 30

Hennes

That is a correct date. 7 may 2012

And I will usually 'correct' it to that format

It helps when 90% of the corporation is not US based.

jscott

I prefer 2012-05-07, it also sorts nicely in file names.

Hennes

Though you often end it with YYYYMMDD conventions

Aye

7 my 2012, in Egnlish: 7th of may 2012

jscott

I can either leave or take the "-"

Hennes

(Brittish english)

Now if I only could for the entire would to one standard on measurement (meters) and temperature (either Celsius, Kevin or NewInverntium) - Just something consistent across the world)

jscott

01:57

@Hennes The meters vs imperial thing really got me when I saw this (counties not using metric) :

Hennes

Everybody uses metric. Well, except for a small village in... oh wait. That is Asterix and Obelix

jscott

Also, where's Antarctica?

Just wondering which tools I need to bring if I'm ever down there.

Hennes

Uninhabited

heh. WARM tools

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WesleyDavid

02:26

Staring at a remote ILO, hoping Windows comes back up.

Updates have been rough the last few Tuesdays.

MDMarra

@ewwhite I was out earlier so I couldn't talk a whole lot. Did you want me to configure anything else there?

WesleyDavid

03:11

Aaron Swartz committed suicide! =(

Aaron Swartz

Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist. Swartz co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS, and built the website framework web.py and the architecture for the Open Library. Although frequently attributed as a co-founder of Reddit, the claim is disputed by Reddit's original founders. Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism. In 2010 he was a member of the Harvard University Center for Ethics. He cofounded the online group Demand Progress (which...

Miles Erickson

It would seem that he committed suicide while contemplating the prospect of spending most of the rest of his life in jail for alleged copyright violations.

MDMarra

Yeah man, wherehaveyou been? It's been 100% of hacker news links since 8am ET

Miles Erickson

So, what do we think about that? I actually have a fair bit of respect for copyright, and I appreciate that online archives can make money and stay in business -- e.g. I subscribe to Safari Books Online and love it -- but 35 years in prison seems a bit disproportionate for mass duplication of scholarly journals.

(Disproportionate enough to drive a man to suicide, apparently.)

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson I think JSTOR is a racket, personally. I dunno what to think. It was hactivism, which is grey at best.

Miles Erickson

@WesleyDavid Right. That's what gets me. Presumably they wanted to throw the book at him precisely because it was activism, and that kind of smells like tyranny.

Man, talk about first world problems: I am moving out of my house, and I have a freezer full of various frozen foods: berries, meats, vegetables, orange juice concentrate, you name it.

Emptied it into a large Rubbermaid tote and took it to the airport to fly it to the island cabin, where I have a chest freezer.

Scott Pack

03:25

Sounds like you're eating like a king for a couple of days.

Miles Erickson

Plane has a flat tire. No airplane mechanics available on the weekend.

Well, I've already shut down my kitchen. At this point I'm wondering whether the homeless shelter might accept opened bags of frozen chicken thighs (etc).

(As a rule, I will do just about anything I can to avoid throwing away food. Putting perfectly good food in the trash feels unambiguously wrong to me.)

Scott Pack

Agreed.

Miles Erickson

@WesleyDavid I mean, if someone stands in the street and blocks traffic to make a point for a cause, with the expectation of being arrested, that's civil disobedience, and I can respect that. If the cops arrest him for standing in the street, that's reasonable law enforcement, and I can respect that too.

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson Right.

Scott Pack

That whole thing looked like more of a test of the law to see what the courts actually thought of it.

Miles Erickson

03:31

@WesleyDavid But if they use unnecessary force in arresting him, put him on the no-fly list, and charge him with absurd trumped-up criminal transgressions -- not because he was standing in the street, but because they disagreed with his cause -- I can't get behind that.

Miles Erickson

03:41

petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/…

Scott Pack

@MilesErickson Welcome to this morning.

Miles Erickson

@ScottPack Speaking of which, why hasn't the sun come up yet? It's almost 8. Must be an eclipse or something.

Scott Pack

@MilesErickson These things happen on the left coast.

WesleyDavid

Tim Berners Lee on Aaron's passing: lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.html

Chris S

04:10

@MilesErickson Awesome

Ward

04:38

@WesleyDavid Yeah, what Iain said... you don't need fenders, you don't need to worry much about chain lube, just pick up something from Craigslist and get out there.

WesleyDavid

04:57

@Ward ...but...but... I'm obsessive.

freiheit

@WesleyDavid Have you test ridden some bikes?

WesleyDavid

@freiheit Not yet.

freiheit

Seriously, you should go test ride some bikes, buy the one you love the most.

Only accessory you need for a new bike is a water bottle cage and a water bottle. Bring your cell phone in a plastic baggie. Bring ID and some form of payment. Maybe bring a snack.

Throw a leg over the bike, push the pedals around in circles.

Try not to run into anything. Drink when thirsty, eat when hungry. Don't obsessively overanalyze.

WesleyDavid

I'm also letting money trickle in while I wait.

freiheit

If you test ride now, you'll have a better idea how much money needs to trickle in. :)

HopelessN00b

05:38

Sooo... instead of being curled up on the couch in front of the fireplace with a sappy movie and a hot Asian chick... I'm sitting outside our server room, which is at 120 degrees.

Fuck computers.

Michael Hampton

@HopelessN00b Who turned off the AC?

HopelessN00b

@MichaelHampton Not sure, waiting for A/C guy to show up. But, we have two units, the dampers on both controlled by electro-magnets... and no battery backup for them. So, little power blip, UPSes save our servers, but both A/C units die. So, that's where my money is.

And, I've officially lost my buzz. Which I'm so including on the expense report I file for this night.

Michael Hampton

Are you going to expense the hot Asian chick, too?

HopelessN00b

06:01

@MichaelHampton Unfortunately, she's not one of those "rental"/"pay-by-the-hour" Asians, but I'm sure as hell expensing the Red Lobster bill, yeah.

Ward

06:48

@WesleyDavid $3500 for this beauty!

phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/bik/3534934409.html

Iain

@Ward interesting brake configiration

Michael Hampton

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Q: What is the inter arrival time

If the inter-arrival time is exponential 0.01 seconds, then what is the inter-arrival time in seconds ? Can you also show me the working to get to the answer ?

networking

Anyone have any idea what this might possibly have to do with us?

Ward

I see a couple of decent-looking bikes here:

phoenix.craigslist.org/search/…

OTOH, my main bikes are one I bought 27 years ago and one that I bought 2 years ago that's 20+ years old, so I'm confident I could tell an acceptable old bike from a dud.

@Iain Tandems lead to interesting things like that, or the self-energizing brakes on mine.

When my wife and I win the lottery, I get to buy two new tandems: one a fully-tricked-out performance machine, one with S&S couplers that we can take with us on cruises (actually, that one will be a convertible tandem/triple)

freiheit

@Ward That and divorce... Or murder...

Ward

@MichaelHampton The edit makes it obvious: he has a hub

Iain

06:59

@Ward I almost never use my rear brake so it looks odd to have a disc on the back of that

Ward

fucking-markdown

Michael Hampton

@Ward Aha, another student who didn't pay attention in class.

freiheit

@Ward I've seen a titanium tandem with S&S couplers before

@Ward How 'about a folding tandem, instead: bikefriday.com/bicycles/tandem

Ward

@MichaelHampton But we're mean to close it so fast! (Sorry, I don't actually want to bring that up...)

Michael Hampton

Naa, we would be mean if we deleted it fast.

Ward

07:03

@freiheit I like Co-Motion 'cause they show cool paint jobs with flames. I want flames!

co-motion.com/index.php/tandems/periscope_trident_convertible

freiheit

@Ward Cro-Moly? Go bamboo instead! calfeedesign.com/products/tandem

Ward

@freiheit Santana makes one... pretty much anyone who makes bikes can figure out how to include S&S as an option.

Well, I'm off to look at more tandem porn...

ewwhite

07:23

grrr

@Ward tandem porn... pssh

@ward This is in my neighborhood...

Calfee carbon fiber tandem, featuring S&S couplers, disc brakes, Gates belt drive, Sram Red. A wealthy-ish couple in the area uses it to commute together to downtown Chicago.

Ward

08:24

SPRAY!

The couple that inspired me to get a tandem hasn't had a car for years, takes trips on tandems (one parent one kid on each tandem).

Mine is much cruder:

ewwhite

08:48

@Ward Did you just jizz or skeet over the photo I posted?

Ward

09:01

Haven't you seen Wayne's World?

But actually, that Calfee is a bit too curvy for my liking, What I really want is something lean like this

ewwhite

That calfee is about 30 pounds.

ewwhite

09:32

A quick search would have given you this: markshuttleworth.com/archives/1103 Downvoting because you did not do ANY research before asking the question. — Deer Hunter 10 mins ago

Iain

@ewwhite and ...

ewwhite

Mean or no? I'm on the fence.

No. not mean.

Iain

@ewwhite It's a crappy question really and the first google hit takes you to what appears to be extensive info on it

ewwhite

I was just happy that I learned a new acronym...

MAAS!!

Iain

@ewwhite ditto

ewwhite

09:42

although it looks suspiciously like something puppet/cfengine/etc could do.

Iain

how would you say it without it sounding like mars

@ewwhite I wouldn't be surprised if it used something like that under the hood

ewwhite

but sleep awaits.. haven't been able to all week

Iain

I was hoping to spin this morning but it's -2 and icy :(

tombull89

11:06

he mad

-11

A: How can I query the Stack Overflow database?

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE LOG ON TO MY ACCOUNT AND HELP ME GET UNBANNED FROM ASKING QUESTIONS OR POSTING ANSWERS!?! EMAIL: [email protected] PASS: ABCabc123 YAHOO EMAIL: [email protected] PASS: ABCabc123 PLEASE!! I JUST WANTED HELP AND MY REPUTATION WAS RUINED!!! WHEN YOU FIX IT JUST...

RobM

11:26

^ one for our resident kitteh-heads

ewwhite

14:51

@Iain it was 60°F yesterday... rained all night... and now it's well below freezing. All icy.

Ryan Ries

@ewwhite It's Al Gore's Revenge, man

Next thing you know the statue of liberty will be submerged

ewwhite

So I stay indoors and atrophy...

Well, i could hit the gym.

ewwhite

15:12

@MichaelHampton Looking at this question:

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Q: fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy on server with RAID after power outage

I am recovering Dell Poweredge R510 server running Scientific Linux 5.5 after an unexpected power outage. The server was set up by our previous system administrator (I'm a grad student). Upon reboot, I see the message: fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy when trying to open /dev/sdb1 File syste...

raid fsck multipath scientific-linux

I don't understand why multipathd is even enabled?

But then I go back to my messed up lack of understanding of dm mappings and LVM.

Michael Hampton

15:37

There's no reason at all for multipathd to be enabled there. And I forgot that megacli doesn't really give you "all" info with that command...

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton But isn't all of that abstraction confusing?

Iain

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Wait, which abstraction?

Iain

friends bike froze this morning

ewwhite

So I bought this ridiculous server on eBay. It's here at home, and I just booted into it...

(aren't people supposed to wipe the systems?)

Michael Hampton

15:45

@ewwhite Oh, lovely!

ewwhite

I'm going through the ILO and IML log to piece together its history...

I mean, 14 disks, 2 SSD's, a fibre controller, 48GB RAM...

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite VM host?

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton waiting to see...

Hmm, didn't boot the first time...

now it's a bunch of XEN daemons.

Michael Hampton

Yup, he was probably running virtual machines on it. I wonder if he left any of them around?

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton it's not booting fully.

Michael Hampton

15:54

I wonder if that's why they sold it? Because they couldn't figure out their software issue.

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton still booting....

Starting K

Michael Hampton

Heh, come back in 15 minutes :)

ewwhite

But then I look at other stuff from the same seller...

ebay.com/itm/…

I just typed root:root

Michael Hampton

Must be one of those places that buy out the entire contents of offices after they go out of business.

ewwhite

they had $70k DNA sequencers for sale when I bought this server

Michael Hampton

16:00

Too localized?

ewwhite

time to runlevel 1 this thing... I want to get in as root to see what the storage setup looks like

Michael Hampton

Go for it.

ewwhite

This is just a really weird server... they must have spent a fortune.

two 1200W power supplies

the SSD's at a time when HP SSD's were not cheap

Michael Hampton

Hm, I see this seller selling... tape drives, more medical equipment, paintball guns, random assorted printers and old servers, ... paintball guns!

ewwhite

single user mode password protected.

This is Debian... maybe that's normal

Michael Hampton

16:08

Live CD

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton I was gonna buy this...

not init=/bin/sh and such?

Michael Hampton

I guess that trick probably still works.

ewwhite

Trying my Polish PLD Linux live CD.

@MichaelHampton You'll have to walk me through this...

I'm booted in the rescue disk...

fdisk -l shows /dev/sda1 as Linux LVM

Michael Hampton

OK, so you'll hit vgchange -ay to activate them all, if the live CD didn't already

ewwhite

how do I import the LVM?

6 logical volumes active

and 8 logical volumes in volume group SSD0 now active

Michael Hampton

16:15

Now lvdisplay will show you what they are, and their device paths, you can then start mounting them

ewwhite

"old root" "new-root" "debian-root"

Michael Hampton

Not very creative, were they?

ewwhite

k. Updated the pass... I hope

Michael Hampton

Remember to umount :)

ewwhite

oops

I did it in a chroot

Michael Hampton

16:19

Or the wrong "root" :)

Wasn't there a /boot partition somewhere in there?

ewwhite

yeah, there were 14 total partitions

Michael Hampton

Hm, well, if you get it wrong you can inspect the grub command line by hitting e (edit) and see what it thinks is the root partition.

Then just try again

ewwhite

I got the right one. Just waiting for the SLOOOOOW boot

Michael Hampton

Now you're going to have to do the same thing for each of the VMs... :)

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton Oh, i just want to see the array layout before I wipe it.

and test performance...

they're using a high-end HP controller... but the controller has an expander on it... so I want to see if we're limited by the expander chip in throughput

Oh weird... ebay.com/itm/…

so I'm in the server... I can't figure out how to download ncdu.

Michael Hampton

16:31

I think step 1 is to connect it to a network.

ewwhite

it is... they didn't get the interface numbering right

got ncdu on... running a scan

Michael Hampton

Though, it having been a Xen hypervisor, that could be tricky. The interface names are probably all scrambled.

ewwhite

not all of the RAM can be seen

root@opal:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         29227       3698      25528          0        798        206

it's 48GB installed.

I've managed to stall the array

Michael Hampton

Did it start a bunch of VMs already? That might account for the missing RAM. I forget how Xen reports memory usage on the dom0...

ewwhite

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ssd0-debian--root
                      9.9G  5.7G  3.8G  61% /
tmpfs                  16G     0   16G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   16G  212K   16G   1% /dev
tmpfs                  16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/raid-home
                     1008G  755G  203G  79% /home
/dev/mapper/ssd0-ssd1
                       99G   62G   33G  66% /homessd
/dev/mapper/raid-wlvapp01
                       63G   54G  6.2G  90% /media/wlvapp01

descending into any mountpoint and running an ls operation stalls.

Michael Hampton

16:37

That's Not Good.

ewwhite

and the runlevel 5 GUI just came up... "welcome to Opal"

Michael Hampton

Note to all: Please use the "not constructive" close reason for shopping questions, because it more accurately describes why the question is being closed. Thanks

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ewwhite

@MichaelHampton it looks like there are a bunch of VMs, and they're stored on the flat filesystem

Michael Hampton

Just as raw image files?

MDMarra

@ewwhite Xen?

ewwhite

16:40

Yes, Xen.

MDMarra

They use xen and you haven't gotten them so angry about it that they reorg yet?

:)

You're going soft, man

Michael Hampton

@MDMarra Yep. @ewwhite got the server he bought on eBay and discovered it packed to the gills with a.... well, see for yourself.

MDMarra

ohhh ok

haha thats silly

Michael Hampton

Doesn't look like they even attempted to wipe the drives.

ewwhite

root@opal://media/wlvapp01# /bin/ls -l
total 52
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 17  2011 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Aug 18  2009 wlvcons
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 26  2010 wlvcoverity
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 29  2010 wlvdev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 30  2009 wlvdox
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 22  2009 wlvdpmstat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Oct  9  2009 wlvfab
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 30  2009 wlvlxr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan  2  2010 wlvmirror

RobM

16:42

I'd love to say I was surprised at businesses making that mistake these days. But lets face it, none of us are surprised, just disappointed.

ewwhite

Well, I'm trying to decide what to do with this server...

turn it into a monster ESXi box... run it as a high-speed storage array (nexenta?)

Michael Hampton

Find out what wlv stands for?

And.... the filesystem standard specifies /media as the mount point for removable media like USB sticks...

ewwhite

Well, there's a "wlvcoverity" - and Coverity is agile.ulitzer.com/node/2441695

@MichaelHampton right, that's very wrong.

MDMarra

/media/hidden/dontlook/pr0n

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ewwhite

There's a huge perforce archive.

a 78GB debian repo.

--- /media/rodata/perforce/kahuna ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            /..
    7.6GiB  /src
    7.6GiB  /dev_kaan
    3.9GiB  /dev
    2.3GiB  /dev_kernel
    2.1GiB  /dev_kaan_bedge
    1.5GiB  /dev_kaan_mgmt
    1.4GiB  /dev_kaan_kernel
    1.3GiB  /dev_kaan_lucid
    1.2GiB  /dev_mgmt
  967.5MiB  /dev_kaan_build
  695.2MiB  /dev_kaan_brian
  688.5MiB  /dev_kaan_squeeze
  499.9MiB  /dev_kaan_dmiller
  481.0MiB  /gnu
  461.2MiB  /osa
  400.2MiB  /dev_gamla

Michael Hampton

16:48

And they left their source code behind too?!

MDMarra

huh

thats pretty awesome

ewwhite

--- /media/rodata/images -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            /..
    3.3GiB   visual_studio_2008.iso
    2.6GiB   en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_sp2_x64_dvd_342336.iso
    1.9GiB   en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_sp2_x86_dvd_342333.iso
    8.0kiB   visual_studio_2008.mds

Michael Hampton

Oh, that's not unusual. I've got ISO images coming out of my ears here.

Scott Pack

Typically when I see ls stall it's because of too many files, not overfull.

ewwhite

--- /media/rodata/pool/8800/dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            /..
  318.3MiB   linux-image-2.6.32.24.42-ubuntu-0.2.bedge-debug-dbg_0.2.bedge_amd64.deb
  317.2MiB   linux-ubuntu-release-image-2.6.32.15+drm33.5-dbg_2.6.32.15+drm33.5_amd64.deb
  317.2MiB   linux-ubuntu-debug-image-2.6.32.15+drm33.5-dbg_2.6.32.15+drm33.5_amd64.deb
  310.2MiB   linux-pv-ops-stable-release-image-2.6.32.16-dbg_2.6.32.16_amd64.deb
  310.2MiB   linux-pv-ops-stable-debug-image-2.6.32.16-dbg_2.6.32.16_amd64.deb

the filesystem is a wreck... I'm doing /bin/ls instead

MDMarra

16:51

@ewwhite devops

ewwhite

--- /media/rodata/tools/kahuna -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            /..
  460.8MiB  /prevent-linux-4.5.0
  164.4MiB  /java
    3.7MiB  /bin

Michael Hampton

WTF is prevent-linux?

ewwhite

It seems to be part of coverity.com

the stalls are due to LDAP lookups

--- /media/rodata/WEBROOT/interop/doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/..
1.3GiB /SSP_SW
711.1MiB /ASICs
622.3MiB /storage_array
577.4MiB /Kaanapali
420.8MiB /technical_training
390.5MiB /OSAbuilder
142.2MiB /switch
119.4MiB /bedrock_report
110.1MiB /hba
59.7MiB /SSG_docs
59.4MiB /ISV_partner_docs
50.0MiB /thurs_mtg_slides
37.8MiB /storage_sw
37.2MiB /supported_drivers

MDMarra

Seems like they offer security products

Seems like I won't be buying any of them

Are you going to contact them at all?

ewwhite

@MDMarra nobody to contact.

MDMarra

16:58

There's no generic contact email on their page?

ewwhite

@MDMarra Oh, Coverity is a development tool they were using

I just found a dir full of visio documents.

MDMarra

ohhhhh

someone should really lose their job for that

Michael Hampton

I suspect it came from a company that went out of business.

ewwhite

Oh damn...

I found it.

MDMarra

and?

ewwhite

17:02

"LSI Company Confidential"

"Kaanapali DPM Software Architecture Definition"

MDMarra

LSI?

ewwhite

"Kaanapali will be a software-only package capable of running natively, or as a guest system over a hypervisor, on a commodity x86 server"

Michael Hampton

Maybe LSI just sent it to these people for some reason?

ewwhite

I'm reading specs, going through root's history

"ping sitescope.lsil.com"

ldap.conf...

Michael Hampton

whois lsil.com

Yeah, ldap.conf would be a good hint

ewwhite

17:06

That's LSI

#BASE   dc=unix,dc=lsi,dc=com
#URI    ldap://147.145.13.142 ldap://147.145.245.180 ldap://147.145.13.197 ldap://147.145.13.112

Michael Hampton

Yeah, I think we have a winner.

ewwhite

127.0.1.1 opal.lsi.com opal

duh, /etc/hosts

Michael Hampton

That's kind of disappointing. You'd think they would know better.

ewwhite

I just found a library of schematics...

Michael Hampton

Oh, and then there's the irony of LSI not using their own storage controllers...

ewwhite

17:11

THey have docs of all of the competitor's gear.

--- /media/rodata/WEBROOT/interop/doc/switch -----------------------------------------------------------------------
            /..
  108.8MiB  /Cisco_MDS
   15.8MiB  /McDATA
   14.9MiB  /Brocade
    2.8MiB  /QLogic

MDMarra

ya dont wipe this

it's too awesome

ewwhite

1.2MiB   How to Write a Microsoft MPIO DSM - Part 1.ppt

I'll ask the eBay seller.

made a samba share for easier browsing... This is interesting

tombull89

17:29

woah

sounds like someone's had an interesting sunday.

ewwhite

yeah, but this is borederline unethical, right?

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Only if you go selling the contents of the disk to LSI's competitors.

tombull89

It's not your fault that you bought a server you thought would be wiped.

That's a pretty epic machine for the price, too.

ewwhite

That's why i bought it! I saw a good deal.

tombull89

Did you find the company it previously belonged to?

ewwhite

17:32

LSI.

tombull89

oh it was lsi

derp

I know it's got a lot of disks in but 2x 1200w PSUs - really?

ewwhite

@tombull89 i've never even seen such big PSU's in a proliant

"This directory is to be used to store documents made available via
Troika's Web services, such as interop and plone. Simply drop
documents into the appropriate directory, and then create Web links
as shown below.

DO NOT move files around unless you are prepared to fix any and all
broken links that would result from such a move!"

I 'm browsing through via samba...

FPGA programming guides... a Bugzilla.

Chipscope output

emails...

a lot of QLogic stuff, too... who would have known

ewwhite

17:51

@Goatmale how is it?

MDMarra

@ewwhite crazy data

ewwhite

@MDMarra hmm?

I want to post some of it... but I really cant/shouldn't/am afraid.

done for the day...

root@opal:~# poweroff
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to poweroff: opal

Broadcast message from root@opal (pts/3) (Sun Jan 13 19:32:27 2013):

ewwhite

18:56

Senior DevOps Engineer at Datadog

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MDMarra

DEVOPS

tombull89

You will be responsible for the availability of our customer-facing services surely that's down to AWS?

ewwhite

"You master IaaS, MaaS, DBaaS, PaaS and ASS concepts, technologies and tools."

MDMarra

.................................

All that shit means is "We have things hosted here for you"

ewwhite

MaaS is the newest one to me. I know about ASS.

Iain

18:59

what is ASS ?

4

MDMarra

huh

@Iain Where your legs connect to your pelvis

In the back

Iain

hey @Chopper3 how're you today ?

@MDMarra :(

Senior DevOps Engineer at Datadog

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