Mar. 8th, 2003

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*RRRING*

"yegods, its 4am. it MUST be a wrong number."

*kerclick* "mrrphllo?"

"Dave, its dave! I need you on the meetingplace right now. There's a sendmail attack going on now, and we need to patch our servers up to fix the latest vulnerability. That patch you did to [main test environment]? I need tht to go to production right now."

"mrarem. huh. what? i didn't patch [main test environment]"

"You didnt'? I thought you did! Okay, sorry to wake you up, can you dial in to Meetingplace? [our conferencing system]"

"uhh. yeah. k. sure. uh. gimme a few."

*click*

*stagger* *thump* "SWEET JUMPIN JESUS, it _IS_ 4am."

Of course, somewhere around here while getting something warm on and going downstaris I had the evil nightmare thought that I might have dreamed that whole sequence, and when I dialled in, no one would be there.

Alas, such was not the case. 3 hours later, we're patched up, mostly, and I've got a sendmail cf headache.

The good news - during the call, the [my company] corporate security dude did the "Why are you guys still running sendmail? We've all switched to linux boxes and Postscript"

Hot damn 8)

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