Re: I'll be a son of a bitch.

[Dave Hornford <OSS@HornfordAssociates.com>]

Then shouldn't its status be updated to indicate its real status rather 
than 'root fs drive died, no response from local admin'
The accurate story indicates a need for help & hardware, the posted 
status something else.
Dave

Ean Schuessler wrote:

> We already dismantled that machine's power supply to resolder a new fan into 
> it, Mr. Fingerpointer.  Are you volunteering to provide a new boot drive? How 
> very awesome!
>
> Just because Lully is hosted here doesn't mean there is local Alpha expertise. 
> There is just free bandwidth and a free rack and free power cycles and free 
> power supply repairs and a local Debian mirror.
>
> Bitching is easy. Get Debian to buy a new drive, have someone with Alpha 
> expertise image it, ship it here and we'll swap it. Do two and configure it 
> for RAID 1 while you are at it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 2:26 pm, Andreas Barth wrote:
>  
>
> > Actually, there are things I'm much more worried about. E.g. lully being
> > down for ages, and http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=lully reads:
> > Status: down - root fs drive died, no response from local admin
> >    
>
>