
Wednesday December 14, 2005
Grumpy Sysadmin
Ingredients:
- 1 Solaris sysadmin
- 2 Solaris 10 sunray servers
- 1 Solaris Fingerprint Database, not up-to-date
- 1 Web Designer who doesn't know basic HCI principles
1. Have web designer add a date stamp to the fingerprint database web page in a format that is hard to read and easy to miss.
2. Have sysadmin enter servers' md5 signatures on web-based Solaris Fingerprint Database.
3. Allow sysadmin temperature to rise as he begins to believe his machines have been rooted when he sees they do not match the fingerprint database.
4. Mix well.
5. Allow to stew for 48 hours.
You will know it is done when the sysadmin realizes the date for the fingerprint database is over a month old and does not include the latest S10 kernel patches and that he's wasted the last 2 days trying to figure out how he was rooted and then reinstalling the servers.
Serve chilled. Makes great leftovers.