like a hospital
Sep. 26th, 2014 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroom"Hell of a way to run a hospital!"
Our new system's servers needed some patches installed last night, which were handled by our night-shift folks. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that some of our scheduled tasks later failed. It turns out that the patching had shut down the process that allows the transmission of files from our server to another system's. That got fixed quickly, but it reminded me of the scene in "The Andromeda Strain" when hell is literally breaking loose and the old sterno drunk who survived the strain expresses his disgust at the situation. It's fixed now, but, like Mister Scott said, the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
Our new system's servers needed some patches installed last night, which were handled by our night-shift folks. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that some of our scheduled tasks later failed. It turns out that the patching had shut down the process that allows the transmission of files from our server to another system's. That got fixed quickly, but it reminded me of the scene in "The Andromeda Strain" when hell is literally breaking loose and the old sterno drunk who survived the strain expresses his disgust at the situation. It's fixed now, but, like Mister Scott said, the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
