Little Plastic Castle

 
    
12
Aug 2008
10:25 AM PDT
   

Tuesday 8/12/2008

August is always the worst month for me.

I've been sick AND having to spend more time IN the office, which doesn't give me time to make web notes.� They all go in my hand-held journal.�

o Interviewed DevilBoy for a Windows Engineering position.� I like him and think he'd make a good addition to the team.� We have 1 more interview to do (tomorrow), but so far we already like candidate 1.�

o WICK exploded on Monday.� Imploded?� The Dev & QA environment Content Push scripts failed because someone changed them.

�- Documentation showed that the DOCU server had NFS mounted shares from Oceanus and PAN.� That means when OH servers write out to DOCU, the data is immediately available on Pan and Oceanus.� Instead, some JACKHOLE set up rsync to copy the files rsync over ssh into Pan & Oceanus.� So when I changed the root password on those servers...BAM.� All their scripts stopped working.

- Thanks Lloyd.� Your incompetence has bitten me right in the ass yet again.

- Spent most of the day analyzing the issues and playing phone tag with the WICK pricks.� 5:20PM the last script edit is done and I sent out notification to everyone back east to try it first thing in the AM.� If my fixes continue to work without issue, then Chops and I are going to run through QA and let the pricks test it.

- Script changes will be done in PROD on Friday before I change the root password.

My day is done.� I had planned to go into the office on Wednesday for the interview but considering how badly my body reacted this morning, I think I may stay home and do it via conference.

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  • Username: coraline
  • Gender / Age: Female, 54
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    About Me: Little Plastic Castle is an extension of This Child's Life which is not hosted at inboxjournal. This blog will make little sense to anyone other than myself. It's a stream of consciousness log of what I do on a daily basis in my job as a UNIX computer systems engineer. o/~ "They say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine...so the little plastic castle is a surprise every time, and its hard to say if they're happy, but they don't seem much to mind." o/~ I endeavor to respect confidentiality and thus I use nicknames for the people I work with. (Mr. T, Ratface, Jerry, Cartman, Grandpa Simpson, Slick, and so on.) I drop system names in here and abbreviations, but any note that requires something like a FQDN will always be marked private. You can comment if you like, but I'll only respond if I feel like it.

    Interests: Cast of Characters: Just a few of the names I use for people, this is the nickname and what their job responsibility is. Mr. T - My Direct Manager (Engineering) Slick - ESX Specialist Cartman - Network Engineering Lead Grandpa Simpson - Network Engineer Becky - WebSphere Engineer Ratface - Developer/Architect Jerry - Project Manager (BTI) Matt T. - Project Manager (Blackbird) The Martian - Application Developer AVP Ice Queen - Engineering AVP Chez - Assistant to Ice Queen Watts - Engineering/Development Sr. Mgr. Hoppy - I.T. Security LDAP Squirrelface - I.T. Security Accts Woodchuck - I.T. Security Accts Russian Bride - Application Tester Trisha - Testing AVP Tequila - UNIX Admin OPS Chops - UNIX Admin OPS Mac - UNIX Engineer (Contractor, works with Tequila & Chops) Margie - SAN specialist (ch)InkPen - Backup Specialist Chimpy - OPS Mgr Duke - UNIX Lead even though he knows nothing about UNIX