From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 21:55:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.159.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F80937B776 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA42164; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:51:44 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:51:44 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Irwan Hadi Cc: wonko@entropy.tmok.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail now running win2000 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000808224658.00a83c70@staf.bpkpenabur.or.id> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Irwan Hadi wrote: > At 12:44 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: > >Irwan Hadi drunkenly mumbled... > > > > > > But I guess soon they will change all their freeBSD servers ;( > > > and I wonder, how many people should be employed by Microsoft, just to > > > press the restart button at their 2000 servers for Hotmail, in case they > > > got BSOD ? > > > >it's called the APC MasterSwitch (or similar peoduct by alternate vendor) > > > >reboot machines over the network. takes the place of 64.2% of all people > >employed with the word microsoft in their title. > > Including MCSE, MCP , etc ? ;) :) > > BTW how can the administrator of hotmail determine if a server is BSOD or > not then ?, because they have 2000 servers and I think without enough > employees to watch the system and how can APC master switch reboot the > machine in case it BSOD ? use something like netsaint to monitor those machines? and the APC master switch is web administered, so it would be too easy to build a quick perl script to trigger a power outlet correspondign to the partiular server that was n olonger responding ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message