Originally posted by Bill Warnock
Turns out the janitor had initially yanked the cord on the server power strip out of the wall one night when he was sweeping, and then plugged it back into the wrong outlet nearby - one that was controlled by the wall switch. If he'd plugged it into the right one, we'd only have had the outage that one night. As it was, every morning when he left he very faithfully and religiously crashed the system for us as he turned out the lights.
Oh well, at least it was easy overtime for me when I'd been dreading possibly having to tear into or replace the server. None of us had any idea that any of the outlets were on the wall switch circuit, but it seemed kinda dumb we didn't think of that possibility.

Comment