Ung. Blear. Whee. Huh?
Mar. 8th, 2003 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penk*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)
"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)
