Re: [SLUG] SLUG webhost -- time of outage

From: patrick grantham (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 08:51:01 EDT


Maybe it's they found another employer. An accident is one thing but to
deliberately pull the power plug on a UPS. What were they thinking, "a UPS
that magically make power?"

On Monday 22 July 2002 23:35, you wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Greg Schmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, R P Herrold wrote:
> > > In a site visit this AM, it appears from the log camera tapes,
> > > and is confirmed by the time marks in the system logs, that
> > > the power cord for this unit was removed from the UPS (along
> > > with a video cable as well) by a person acting beyond the
> > > scope of their authority, incident to them adjusting an
> > > adjacent computer.
> >
> > Being the person who reported this to the list, I'm trying to crawl under
> > my keyboard to hide as I recall the cables I've tripped on in server
> > rooms and ponder the hot water I may have put some poor, budding geek
> > into when they may have been simply trying to go the extra mile for their
> > client.
>
> ... no -- worse than that -- expresly advised to keep der mits
> off the units, and will not do so. A LART candidate.
>
> The UPS, the host, and the cables are (were and are again)
> routed to avoid this issue, and were intentionally moved.
>
> -- Russ



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