Ran in to a very bothersome issue over the weekend. Pushed a package installation automatically via Satellite to ALL of my Linux hosts at 11pm on Sunday evening. Around 9am on Monday I was invited to a bridge to discuss some Oracle issue where no new connections were allowed to the database on the Listener. The fun begins... So - we discuss what changes had been applied recently and my software push is mentioned. I had tested this software push on all our non-prod hosts 8 weeks prior - and everything has been fine. So.. what the hell happened. As it turns out the number of hosts affected were less than 1% - However, the way the problem was communicated made the problem sound much worse. So - at this point I assume that the approved deployment to ALL our hosts broke EVERY.SINGLE.BOX in our environment. I start to review the actual output of the software push and I notice a package that had been updated which was not included in my testing 8 weeks ago....
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.