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System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 46

Posted by Soulskill from the thanks-now-reset-my-password-for-the-eleventh-time dept.
ninjagin writes: They might be underneath a desk, hauling cables above your ceiling, swapping out a drive in your data center, putting the blue smoke back inside that old pizza box on the rack, up at 2 :00AM dealing with an alarm, or upgrading or patching your systems over the weekend. But wherever they are today, take a moment to thank your friendly neighborhood system administrator. We always look to them to fix things up when things go bad, but they are rarely recognized for the majority of their effort — the quiet work they do in the background to keep the bits flying and things running smoothly.
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System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015

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  • Summer Friday (Score:3)

    by Nukenbar ( 215420 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:06PM (#50225425)

    It is a Friday during the summer and no one is in the office. What more do you want?

  • I hope that Debian celebrates this day! (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:09PM (#50225449)

    I hope that Debian celebrates this day by giving Linux system admins the greatest gift possible: the permanent removal of systemd from all future versions of Debian.

    • what? give the admins more work to do?

      • I admin hundreds of Linux boxes; you are wrong. systemd is a badly designed pile of bloat that gets in the way. The part where it backs through starting of necessary services because of trivial errors is especially annoying

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by KGIII ( 973947 )

        Perhaps you might know... What if I wanted to move the vino vnc server up in the boot order so that it was available at the log-on screen? Would systemd help with that? Using LinuxMint and, frankly, I am just motivated by laziness but I have spent more energy on this than I would have spent just going down the stairs and logging myself back in after rebooting. Now, however, it is a mission.

    • The greatest gift of all for SysAdmins:

      Sudocrem

      http://www.sudocrem.co.uk/home [sudocrem.co.uk]

  • Thanks for the blotched printer migration... (Score:5, Funny)

    by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:24PM (#50225573)
    The server team managed to blotched a printer migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. My boss threw me under the bus by volunteering me to clean up the mess involving 1,000+ printer queues and four servers. Just when I'm about to finish three weeks of work, the server team pulled the old print servers without warning. That created 100+ tickets from angry users who can't print. Another fine mess to add to my resume.

    • Happy SysAdmin day to you!
      You live in a print queue,
      Your life is like a code monkey,
      And you smell like one too!

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by neminem ( 561346 )

        I do quite like the Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie sysadmin song: http://www.deadtroll.com/sysad... [deadtroll.com]

        There's a guy who works in another room
        Or, on another floor
        He's the one you call
        When your document ain't there no more
        He's probably a boy, but he might be a girl
        Or, something in-between
        He's the only one in the building
        Who knows what PC load-letter means
        He's your System Administrator
        He probably reads comic books
        And you tremble in fear when you have to hear one of his
        "What a dummy", looks
        Got a virus, lost your pa

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by pigiron ( 104729 )
          Fuck sysadmins. I have root on all my machines plus any dedicated database servers and have done so forever.
      • The desktop monkeys were shocked that a four-line PowerShell script could automatically add a network printer to a system. Windows behaves quite strangely with 500+ network printers under Devices and Printers. Not recommended.

  • Comment removed (Score:3)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:35PM (#50225651)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Oops (Score:1)

    by notdsk ( 886400 )
    Nice stapler icon. This is not Secretary's Day

  • I love my sysadmin (Score:5, Funny)

    by PopeRatzo ( 965947 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:39PM (#50225705) Journal

    I just gave my sysadmin an eightball of coke and a box full of Raspberry Pi's. He says he's "planning something big".

    I'm starting to wonder if I should maybe tell someone.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by rossz ( 67331 )

      Hire me. I have tons of experience as a senior linux system administrator and I'm feeling under-appreciated in my office.

  • S.A.A.D

  • show your appreciation (Score:3)

    by k6mfw ( 1182893 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:47PM (#50225789)
    with pizza and Mountain Dew (so I heard these are their gourmet dining). Other than that, our sys ads are great. They fixed problems before they become problems. Occasionally one of them comes through my office, have to do another audit of machine s/n and IP addresses (with so many platforms their lists get all screwed up so they have resort back to classic technique of determining what all is where).
  • This should've been posted at least YESTERDAY rather than 3pm on the day of. If they want more than just a "thank you" (and I'm sure they do) then people need more notice. Most people don't track these X Appreciation Days.

  • From Slashdot 2005 - Pulp Administrator (Score:3)

    by perotbot ( 632237 ) on Friday July 31, 2015 @03:18PM (#50226055) Journal
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... [slashdot.org] Pulp Administrator, With apologies to QT and SLJ Do you read assembly language, Brad? There's a few lines of Code I've got memorized EBIDIC 9D5: "The path of the Network Administrator is beset upon all sides by the inequities of the ignorant hacker and the tyranny of jackass users. Blessed is he who, in the name of file retention and network security, shepherds the newbie through the darkness of the Internet. For he is truly his users administrator and the finder of lost files. And I will strike down upon keys with great vengance and furious deletion those who would attempt to poison and destroy my network. And you will know I am root when I lay my lockout upon thee." I been typin' that shit for years. And if you read it, it meant your ass. I never really gave much thought about what it meant 'till just now. I just thought it was just some cold-blooded shit to IM to user before I locked his ass out of the network. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin', it could mean you're the jackass user. And I'm the Administrator. And Mr. PalmPilot here, he's the shepherd protecting my Administrator account in the darkness of the Internet. Or it could be, you're the Administrator, and I'm the shepherd, and it's the Internet that's an ignorant jackass. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is... (he levels the PalmPilot and speaks deliberately) You're the weak And I am the tyranny of jackass users. But I'm tryin' Brad, I'm tryin' real hard, to be a shepherd.

  • Thank you me!

    You're welcome.

    That's about it.

  • Once email is working again I'll send them an e-card.

  • It's kind of funny this lands on a Friday in the middle of summer when it looks like most of the rest of the office is off.

  • Finally someone got it right.. Congrats /. But seriously, To all who put up the "good fight" at all hours of the day and or night, the sacrifices made, etc.. A hardy RIGHT ON! ( I could say more, but I want to keep it clean) To those who fail to see the importance of your Fellow Sys Admin. I will pray for the survival of your position, company, and or the industry in which this is applied. Best Wishes to all whom make it happen.. GeeKay

  • And this year sysadmins are grafted by a BIND update [networkworld.com] just in time for sysadmin day.

    Happy patching sysadmin day!

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