@Gilles @derobert @terdon Where I used to work we had a lot of old Sun equip. that was regularly up for 3+ years. Old Unix hats would brag about this. The 3 R&D storage SANs were Sun systems as well. These had been up for I believe ~4-5 years. Well one night the oldest of the 3 stopped working. SA's triaged it and finally though, let's reboot the system.
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So, apparently there was a firmware glitch where when the system had been up for >900 days (never tested I guess) a counter would roll over, and when this counter rolled, the system thought it was a new installation and would come up with the file systems wiped.
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Sun had never had any customer keep the systems up this long, so they were completely unaware of this roll over issue, and promptly gave us a hot fix, but there were many ppl sweating that nothing would bring either of the other 2 systems down or all data would've been lost. Of course there wree backups but it would've taken weeks to months to rebuild/restore everything.
@terdon - the system was in a hung state b/c this counter had rolled over, so the only course of action that seemed appropriate was to reboot, the act of rebooting is what caused the failure to happen, since that counter was now 0. But no one knew until it started to happen.
There is a controversy about a certain chat bot in some chat rooms. The one major disagreement is about the bot greeting new users in chat. Some users argue that this is helpful to explain the chat room rules to new users and make sure they actually notice them, while others argue that bots shoul...
Since we can't see facial expressions or hear tone of voice, I need to ask. @strugee you are of course aware that Gilles is not a bot (despite all evidence to the contrary) right?
@derobert not quite. An SE dev came in to the SU chat room, got greeted, was annoyed and simply banned the bot
This bot is a community project there and very popular in the chat room, the chat greeting had been decided upon through a meta post and the chat room regulars were quite involved.
The dev just came in and acted on a whim while giving no explanation.
I would like to discuss with some civility a recent action that has occurred in the Root Access chatroom. First, allow me to catch everyone up on the facts of the situation:
Overview
Q: What happened? A: Please see this message in Root Access chat. This decision is the primary reason for askin...
@derobert there is a valid point here. If SE is supposed to be a community, then it should act like one. In this particular case, TBTB came down hard with no previous discussion and that was shocking to SE regulars.
And then, probably on a bad day (or if it was a dev, not really aware of what the various site rules, etc.) did the quick solution to what he thought wasn't allowed—throw the bot out
@Williams Yes. Like you can have your zaptel config messed up, and it trying to use some weird signaling like AMI instead of B8ZS 5ESS on your PRIs. Or it thinks they're E1s. I didn't have zoiper, whatever that is...
@Williams I'm sorry, but it has been years. I only used it briefly. I really don't remember much about it.
But I guess I'd ask how do you know you're not able register with Zoiper (which, Google informs me is a SIP client)? It must be giving you some error, right?
You could do this:
$ bind '"\C-j": "\C-atime \C-m"'
Or put this in your ~/.inputrc:
"\C-j": "\C-atime \C-m"
Then when you want to do time sleep 1 you'd type sleep 1 and press Ctrl+J instead of Enter.
I would not recommend swapping the j and m in the bind command (or in the .inputrc file). ...
This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems.
The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels like treating a symptom, and doing so in a way that penalizes folks who answer what are by all ap...
@gparyani Chrome 31 is out? Oh, it came out last week. I think my Chrome process has been running for longer than that. I'm not an upgrade freak, I'm content with software that's more than a week old… Why should I waste time upgrading all the time? I wish there was a stable version of Chrome and Firefox! — Gilles31 secs ago
I need restrict session limit on my OpenSSH server only for one session (one connection). I use Ubuntu Desktop 7.10. Of course Version is old, but I need it for experimental purposes. I tried modify my config file - /etc/ssh/sshd_config two ways:
First I changed:
MaxStartups 1
but it does no...
I would like to discuss with some civility a recent action that has occurred in the Root Access chatroom. First, allow me to catch everyone up on the facts of the situation:
Overview
Q: What happened? A: Please see this message in Root Access chat. This decision is the primary reason for askin...
You could do this:
$ bind '"\C-j": "\C-atime \C-m"'
Or put this in your ~/.inputrc:
"\C-j": "\C-atime \C-m"
Then when you want to do time sleep 1 you'd type sleep 1 and press Ctrl+J instead of Enter.
I would not recommend swapping the j and m in the bind command (or in the .inputrc file). ...
I need restrict session limit on my OpenSSH server only for one session (one connection). I use Ubuntu Desktop 7.10. Of course Version is old, but I need it for experimental purposes. I tried modify my config file - /etc/ssh/sshd_config two ways:
First I changed:
MaxStartups 1
but it does no...
