October 04, 2004
The Wedding pictures are there!
I have added a new photo album. Click here to take a look!
July 28, 2004
Never
Never, ever, never ever log in as Root.
This is written in any good Linux book. But we all think that we are smarter than the other guys...
So this morning I made a mistake when trying to make a backup copy of files on my server, the last backup before my trip on saturday. I lost the server! Nothing was working...
Luckily, I was not in Europe yet and I was able to go to the server. It wouldn't even let me login from its keyboard!!! I had to use some tricks... but I was finally able to get in and restore the missing files from a RECENT BACKUP.
MAKE BACKUPS and of course, never ever log in as Root.
Then, at the place where they keep my server, they said that it wasn't that bad. They still remember the night before the Christmas party when I went in the server room to work on my server, put it back on the (top) shelf and it toppled over, pushing a production server (one of the accounting machines) of onto the cement floor. I was lucky that time too since we had a spare server with the same hardware configuration and I was able to get everything up and running within a few hours.
But I was banned from the server room after that!!! (even though I was a co-owner...that's how bad they feared my incursions in the servers environment). Today I was given a small shelf to work from (standing room only) and was not allowed to physically move anything.
In the end it all came together. I made a manual backup before I left the server. It's running Linux, so unless something drastic happens in the server room (like the usual flood through the ceiling!) i shouldn't have to worry about the machine for at least a year.
Remember: Never ever...