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I think you're definitely right that shutdown is the harder problem and it's one that init systems in general pay a lot less attention to, unfortunately. If the
by bandrami 3y ago
I think you're definitely right that shutdown is the harder problem and it's one that init systems in general pay a lot less attention to, unfortunately. If the system has a problem coming up it often at least gets into a state where I can access it; if it hangs after being told to reboot, well... I once had to drive from Arlington VA to Seacaucus NJ to press a power button on a rack server in our datacenter, and I don't like that.
- __d 3y agoYou couldn't use the DC's remote hands?
- bandrami 3y agoIIRC the issue was if the remote hands opened our closet they would see we were over our contract limit for servers in the rack. The late 90s were kind of the wild west when it came to colos.
- __d 3y agolol, yeah, been there.
- ilyt 3y agoyou could, most modern servers also have out of band controls, but it is still PITA because you don't know whether something is wrong or it just takes extra few minutes for whatever reason