Re: How to start 'last' on a SunOS 4 box?
- From: Thad Floryan <thad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 16, 4:36 pm, Michael Vilain <vil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
I heard of this one site where the head sysadmin struggled to figure out
why the machine would crash and reboot late at night with no logs or any
record of why it just stopped working and would reboot. Near as they
could tell, the machine was being power cycled. They had an electrician
check the wiring and a bunch of other things. No janitors had access to
the room so they weren't unplugging it to buff the floors or anything.
Finally, they setup a videocam to watch the system and console. At
11pm, a hand reached over and cycled the power switch. Interestingly,
[...]
Another wild but true story of a Sun crashing due to the Moon.
Foster City CA is essentially built on fill bordering SF Bay. One
building's electrical ground wasn't placed deep enough and twice
each day power went wacko and the systems crashed. Turned out tides
affected the water table depth and sinking the ground(s) deeper fixed
the problem.
.
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