Subj : Tiers
To   : JACK YATES
From : TODD COCHRANE
Date : Wed Aug 01 2001 04:32 am

JY>What's absurd about *your* statement is that you are projecting to the 
masses
JY>that you are away from you system for monmths at a time (you are) and your
JY>system runs unattended while you're gone (it doesn't).  Now tell the people 
the
JY>*rest* of the story; you are in contact with your system daily, via laptop,
JY>making additions, corrections, adjustments, whatever is necessary, which is 
a
JY>good thing, of course.

The longest the system has went without anyone touching it locally or
remotely was 78 days.. I do login via pcanywhere most often or not to
make sure things are squared away.. Example had a downlink as about a
password issue. I didn't have my list with me so logged in via ftp and
pulled it down.. Did not require a pcanywhere login but I do check the
system nearly every day.. I add downlinks all the time..

JY>You didn't mention a crash or two that required intervention by someone 
onsite,
JY>even if it was only to stick a CD in and reboot, did you?

Sure that has happened but like I said if I did not have a wife or
friends then there could arise a problem... Since I have been gone on
this trip I have not had to re-boot but I did screw up a config a week
or so ago that took me 3-4 hours to fix.. But I could have made that
mistake sitting in front of the thing If i would have been there I
could have stuck the cd in and been back up in 10 minutes.. The wife was
on another island for the weekend so I had to re-build by hand. I could
have called my bud and he could have come over and stuck the cd in the
player but heck why bother him when I could correct my mistake.

JY>Now, wanna know what happens when a system runs unattended for months at a
JY>time?  Ask Andrea about Jerry Gause and her netmail.  BTW, where *is* Jerry? 
 I
JY>wonder if he knows that his system stopped transferring mail on June 4?  
D'ya
JY>suppose it's still running, sans monitor or in a closet somewhere and he 
thinks
JY>it's doing what his stable software intended it to do?

That is why I have emergency e-mail address's along with a cell phone
that people can call me when I am in the  mainland.  If the worst
happens they can call luckily we have not had that problem yet...
Murphies Law works against ya with time so I am sure the worst will
happen someday the key is to minimize the number of possible
failures.

Todd..






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