Or you could just run `ldconfig` to clean the library cache, go down to single user mode, and then back into multiuser mode. Everything but init restarts, and init can already restart itself if it detects a change.

If there is a decent implementation of ZFS in the Linux or the BSD kernel, NetApp will sue the hell out of them.

Fixed that for you.

What part of ``don't admit to knowing anything'' is confusing you? If you tell them that you know that they're an officer, they'll know that you know. Now they have the upper hand!

Learn Slackware and you learn Linux. Learn Gentoo and you are Linux.

I am Boris Johnson...and I am HUNGRY! HUNGRY!

Chrome's AdBlock still downloads the offending components; it just hides them from the user.

(Though, I am told, the most important servers are permanently connected to a large matrix KVM switch)

KVM over IP is your friend.

Or just the fact that he didn't make an I-got-hit-by-a-bus contingency plan.

Yes, yes, yes. Even if he was not found guilty, the failure to document this stuff (even for the more innocent reason of getting hit by a bus) should make this guy unemployable in IT for the rest of his life.

I'd call him unethical for not ensuring that the passwords were documented. What if he got hit by a bus and died? Then his replacements would be toast.

Agree. Even if he wasn't guilty, the owners of the equipment need enough information to keep running if he gets hit by a bus, and any ethical admin would be quite willing to oblige (our typically large egos imply wanting others to view our work positively).

Even if he wasn't convicted, he should not have ever gotten a job in IT again.

It was set up so that a password reset would conveniently wipe the firmware and settings. A perfectly good and quite complex configuration down the drain. And that would mean downtime.

The soldier's choice: disobey and take a bullet from your commander now, or follow the order and stretch rope later.

Except that the contract of Childs said that he was not allowed to tell anyone but the mayor. They were asking him over a teleconference, where he didn't know who was on the other side (except that the mayor was not). He was thinking that he would be liable if he did give over the password.

That only works if you can convince the stupid people too.