Verily I say unto thee, that Jerry McBride spake thusly:
> I have linux servers in my responsibility that run so well that when
> I actually have to go visit that I almost never remember how they are
> configured.
You're lucky. I see my servers so rarely that I typically need to follow
the CAT cable just to find them.
> I keep a "black book" of sorts, that contains passwords, a list of
> running apps and above all else configurations... just so I can
> refresh my memory of what the linux sever actually is doing.
Stick it in the motd.
Mine isn't so helpful:
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~]$ ssh sky.matrix
homer@xxxxxxxxxx's password:
Last login: Fri Dec 21 03:34:59 2008 from ferrari.matrix
Oh. It's you.
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> I never "have" to manage those linux boxes... they just run..
Ooh I have 212 new messages from someone called Cron Daemon.
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
02:42:09 up 212 days, 23:17, 4 users, load average: 0.40, 0.34, 0.29
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