From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 18 7:32:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4023537B41A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8IEVow10001; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA16389; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16385; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:31:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:31:50 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Story of the walled-in server? In-Reply-To: <3BA6E609.FF37F7A8@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > I recall, some time ago, hearing a story about a BSD server that was > > walled in during a renovation and kept on running for years -- until > > a puzzled IT staff broke through the drywall and found it purring > > happily away. Does anyone know if this story is true or apocryphal? > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Contact John Sokol. > > It was a VAX he admin'ed, at one time in his dark past. Slashdot had a story about a Novell server this happened to: http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/10/1846258.shtml Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message