[luau] Thank you Ray!

[al plant]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> During our meeting today we noticed that Videl appeared to be down.  All
> ports appeared to be closed, but ICMP ping packets were responding.
> 
> Strangely though, when I got home Videl appeared to be working 100%
> again.  After checking the logs, I realized the Videl downtime was due
> to a mistake I made 2 months ago!
> 
> I had made a vserver enhanced kernel in order to run virtual server
> partitions on Videl, separating mail, web and database servers into
> their own security isolated partitions.   The theory is that even if an
> individual server is cracked, they cannot do anything to other vserver
> partitions on the same box.
> 
> 2 months ago I must have manually booted into this vserver kernel, found
> it to be stable and went home, forgetting to make it the default
> kernel.  The power must have gone out for an extended period of time
> today.  When the server came back up, it booted the default Red Hat
> kernel without vserver capability, meaning none of the web, mail or
> database servers came up either.
> 
> Ray noticed this and quickly fixed it.  Thanks Ray!
> 
> Moral behind this story?  Yeah, it is unlikely that your Linux server
> will ever need rebooting, but don't depend entirely on high uptime to
> save you.  Be sure to check that your server will reboot properly.
> 
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> 
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Hey No problem, Guys.

See how much we all learned with that unintended lesson. "You a good
teacher Warren."

Good work Ray. 

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