[ale] Little OT: Bad Linux Sysadmin Practices

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yeah, actually:  deciding that dual power supplies on servers were "for 
redundancy" - but not the right kind, and wiring each one up to separate 
circuits.  Do that all or most of the way up a rack until PDUs on both 
sides are nearly maxxed out, such that when one power supply fails, that 
server's entire load falls on the other PDU and trips its breaker - then 
the first PDU's break trips in milliseconds because the entire load just 
got dumped on it...crash the whole rack.  Of course, the bosses wouldn't 
listen to the EE major who saw this coming, and the guys who cabled up 
this house of horrors are probably still there...

Wonder why I left the industry??



On 10/11/12 3:30 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> http://tuts.pinehead.tv/2012/10/10/how-to-make-your-boss-angry-bad-linux-sysadmin-practices/
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> Can you add something to it ?
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