[ale] Humorous (to me at least) note

[Lightner, Jeff]

I once had to spend a couple of hours explaining to a non-technical business manager why exit status 1 from Veritas Netbackup wasn't actually a non-zero ERROR status.

It taught me the value of exclude lists - if you exclude the socket files it can't backup anyway from the attempt it gives a nice exit status 0.   The fact that only the exit status changed and not the actual contents of the backups was lost on many.  :-)

Recently I've seen a lot of discussion regarding an ugly message that shows up in older RHEL log files regarding multipath.   The solution upstream was to remove the error message.   The condition that makes it show up is still there but isn't really a problem.   The number of folks I've seen posting asking how to get rid of "the error" despite the well written post explaining that it isn't REALLY an error and has been removed upstream because of that boggle the mind.   Presumably these are admins asking the question.





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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 5:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] Humorous (to me at least) note

+1

All systems nominal. They are running with all the usual problems already known about.

On September 2, 2014 4:57:13 PM EDT, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
>I was telling my (sort of) boss about how all these error messages on
>one of our systems didn't mean anything and that she should just ignore
>
>them because it would be too hard to make them go away. At the end of
>my little soliloquy, I said, "Every thing is 100% under control --
>probably."
>
>Which actually makes sense. I am not 100% sure everything is under
>control but if it is under control, it's 100% under control.
>
>y
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