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From: artmama@winternet.com (Jeanne Badman)
Newsgroups: winternet.gripes
Subject: Re: In excusible
Date: 26 Aug 1996 02:37:21 GMT
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I can't understand how "they" can let this sort of thing go on. Yes, it
gets cleared up when the file system is taken care of but it has been
happening (root full) on a regular basis for several weeks
indicating that, as you say, the basic system work is not being done.
That is a strong indicator of a basic policy decision: "9-5 and lets not
spend money on the basics of reliability, just do the minimum and hope
the folks who don't care about such esoterica as ftp, mailing news, shell
accounts, etc. stay happy enough to keep their $24.95 coming in. The ones
who know and care just cost more money to support anyway. Let them go."
Stephen Saroff (saroff@pobox.com)
wrote: : The root file system filled up on several systems.
:
: Speaking as an ex-sysadmin, this is not excussible.
:
: I was not one of the fire brands shouting that "Without Mike, we'll
: leave..." but I could easily turn into one.
:
: Please, please practice good standard sysadmin practices, including
: monitoring file systems, and checking.
:
