Comment by Joker_vD
13 hours ago
I don't think I've ever paid attention to a MotD on any of the servers I had a ssh access to... what do people put there?
13 hours ago
I don't think I've ever paid attention to a MotD on any of the servers I had a ssh access to... what do people put there?
You know, typical admin stuff
Ah, I see. Our admins typically understood that users were being given disk quotas precisely so that they could use that disk space, but that's probably not a universal stance.
It's really not.
Quotas mean "more than this is clearly too much" not "please use this space".
In good times nobody minds, but in bad times when you just can't extend the drive you have to tell people off. Part of the job of making sure the system can continue to work for what you need it, under _real_ constraints.
You may have to delete stuff, you may have to shut the server down to save power. You may have to limit clock speeds. It depends on the environment and "it really should work because it should be covered by next day on site warranty and you could download more ram" often doesn't apply.
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I had it seen on servers that were typically reserved for the team but there was no official booking system for those machines. When you start using the machine you would typically put some note to make sure somebody else does not overrun your long-running tests or performance measurements.
> I don't think I've ever paid attention to a MotD on any of the servers I had a ssh access to... what do people put there?
And then we get "Is the system down?". Yes, the fucking system is down.
"The announcement was visible in a MOTD on every server in the fra3 location for the last two days."
"I have not touched any machines in fra3 for a week, how the hell would I know of it? Why do we even have #fra3-maintenance and #maintenance channels then, if that's your stance?"
Things that should probably be an email. I think one time I’ve seen it work is to tell you stuff specifically about the host you’re on to avoid mistakes.
And then, of course, you copy that email to a Slack because nobody reads their email.
We have the servers role, you can derive that from the name obviously, but we do have hosts which as the same naming scheme, but slightly different roles. There's when the last Puppet run happened and what it applied (and who authored it). Depending on the host type there's also active/standby, warnings for production hosts or information about increased log level on things like sudo.
It sounds like a lot, but it's fairly compact and really helps when you need to absolutely sure where you are and you have eight terminal windows open.
Right?
Like, I used to, but it was in the early 1990s.. People look at them now?
Next I'll be asking people to finger me to get my availability ..