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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:31:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject:   Re: corporate announcement
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104051931070.26913-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405170015.00c79410@localhost>

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Or morons like me who see a lot of zombie connections from dead ssh
connections and type 'killall sshd' to clean them all up at once,
forgetting that will kill the main daemon, as well as the current session. 

I really shouldn't be allowed to breed. hehe

/joseph

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 04:56 PM 4/5/2001, Chris Dillon wrote:
> 
> >Heh, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to design a watchdog into any
> >system that is sitting outside of easy reach, no matter how stable you
> >think the operating system is.  :-)
> 
> I don't know how many admins I've met who admit to having locked 
> themselves out of their own systems (usually via bad firewall 
> rules). In many cases, they have had to drive miles to get to the 
> system console.
> 
> Of course, in the case of Pathfinder, it would have been a
> slightly longer drive. ;-)
> 
> --Brett
> 
> "Stupidity is like hydrogen; it's a basic building block of the
> universe." -- Frank Zappa
> 
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