From alt.sysadmin.recovery Mon Dec 4 22:12:26 1995 Path: sunews!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!slxsys!plug.news. pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.res ton.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.fido.net!demon!mail2news.d emon.co.uk!imperial.demon.co.uk From: Steve Shipway <steve@imperial.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: A song for UseNet Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:13:56 GMT Organization: Imperial Business Systems Message-ID: <dipmf9.9oc@imperial.co.uk> References: <47qs23$63m@umbc8.umbc.edu> <phil.95nov24130430@jcsmr.anu.edu.au> richard.817287059@exxilon> <498534$bij@osh1.datasync.com> Summary: more silly sysadmin related songs X-NNTP-Posting-Host: imperial.demon.co.uk X-SMTP-Posting-Host: imperial.demon.co.uk [Mon, 27 Nov 95 18:18:18 GMT] X-SMTP-Posting-Host: post.demon.co.uk [Mon, 27 Nov 95 18:28:38 GMT] In article <498534$bij@osh1.datasync.com>, Martin H. Booda <booda@osh1.datasync.com> wrote: >Oh, I'm a sysadmin and I'm OK, >I grep all night and I chown all day. Here is someting knocked up in response to an article on demon.ip.support, from someone claiming that setting up his home PC to connect to the internet is needlessly complex. To the tune of 'My Favourite Things'... PPP Daemons and protocol routers TCP/IP and fast system booters Long network cables like tincans on strings These are a few of the internet things Serial modems and null-modem cables Millions of DIP-switches, all without labels Flow control, stop bits, software and hard Wondering why your connection is barred INN, CNEWS, nntp servers slurp to collect it (do we really deserve this?) Route it to demon, cross fingers and pray This is what happens most every day. Internal subnets, with bridges and routers Protocol stacks on dos/windows computers Flaky net configs that break on a whim Leaving the packets stuffed into a SIMM FTP proxies and webfile homepages Clueless mac users in mad crazy rages Protocol packets that stop for their tea Leaving me wondering where the hell they can be. HTML specs and world wide web rootfiles POP3, SMTP, DNS bootfiles MMDF and the sendmail config Why is the mail spool direct'ry so big? When the POP dies! When the line drops! When Im feeling stress... I simply start playing with my network configs, And get into a much... worse mess. ----- I suppose for a.s.r we should add: Clueless mad lusers who cant find their files Long pointless printouts that go on for miles Dodgy DEC diskdrives that walk 'cross the floor Causing the processes all to dump core When the lusers ring! When the pager beeps! And at 3am they call. I simply remember I'm the BOFH And rm -r ... them all. -Steve, who is actually having a fairly good day. -- Steve Shipway steve@imperial.co.uk Voice: +44 117 925 1700 Imperial Business Systems, 54-56 Park St, Bristol, UK Fax : +44 117 925 2515 The opinions expressed in this message are not | Woe unto them that rise up necessarily those of Imperial Business Systems | early in the morning -Isaiah 5
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