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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Server Room Tragedy #6

The Situation:
Today students received numerous funny mails (seemingly) from a faculty account.

4 times -   [Students] Fw:
1 times -   [Students] Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!
2 times -   [Students] Fwd: image.jpg
5 times -   [Students] Fwd: Photo
2 times -   [[Students] Fw: Funny :)
4 times -   [Students] Fw: Sexy
2 times -   [Students] Re:
1 time -    [Students] Word file

This series went on till the evening.

The Tragedy:
Mr Someone-in-the-server-room was supposed to properly install the virus & mail scanner which had been stopped in damage-control mode yesterday. By the evening, due to some reason, the imap service too had stopped working. Obliviious of the solution, Mr Somebody rebooted the students server and left for the day (the server hadn't booted back yet). Even after the server booted back, the imap service hadn't got back.

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Qs
1. Hey, but imap on 200 is working now.
Ans: Yup, I switched it on. I myself use imap.

5 comments:

Manoj said...

Hey
I am little curious about this... How much are these Sys-admins paid ??
There is a guy from wipro in our office who does this sys-admin stuff and he gets paid something like Rs 12000 pm.
And he doesn't knows shit about system administration... ;)).

So do you really expect some good person walking in for less then 10000 and work at IIIT.

I guess you can raise this point to the faculty in charge, rather then defaming/flaming the poor incapable/confused soul(sysadmin) on your blog obscure to the faculty.

diver said...

guys..dont forget..IIIT rocks :D

bechara sysadmin..tell him to take training from u guys ;)

Anonymous said...

@manoj

Faculty very much reads blogs. Check archives of IIIT Buzz to know more.

Manoj said...

I agree.. but my point is... the root of the problem is not the system administrator, but the faculty in charge who is really doing a total mess of it.

Instead of flaming the sys-admin... it will be better to point out this. If this is the state of affairs in IIIT, then GOD save our insti.

Anonymous said...

All these tragedies are created due to you did not get the BANYAN TREE Award.