The one thing I can say for today, and that is &quot;It wasn&#39;t boring&quot;.  I&#39;ll save some time and summarise, the main linux server decided this afternoon that it had had enough and decided to the throw its toys firmy out of the proverbial pram and dropped off the network like a dead bird off a telegraph wire. Previously the linux server had been a good little boy and had behaved itself for the past year without a hitch (despite losing sync occasionally). Unlike the Windows server which recently died a most violent death in the form of a power supply failure and a return-to-base trip. It still hasn&#39;t returned from base yet :/ I can&#39;t think of &quot;return to base&quot; without thinking &quot;All your base are belong to us&quot;. Hmmm.<br /><br />Annnyway, the linux server had previously been fine, and it&#39;s primary (in fact, sole) function is a database server for our EPOS system, it contains the propietary database structure of our EPOS software suppliers so they&#39;re naturally a bit careful to whom they give the root password to. Before today, we hadn&#39;t had need for the root password as any problem we&#39;d run into before was pretty much run-of-the-mill stuff requiring no root access. However today was a day like no previous. As I say, it dropped off the network, just after lunchtime and there were quite a few miffed people in line at the tills. I immediately try to find out what&#39;s happened, which, is still a somewhat odd occurance.<br /><br />Cut a long story short, I think I impressed pretty much everyone with my knowledge and ability to deal with the problem as it stood. I located the problem, knew how to work around it in the shortest time and get everything back up and running despite it being an unforeseeable incident. Go team me!<br /><br /><img src=&quot;{e_IMAGE}newspost_images/thumb_lrg6002.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; width: 100px; height: 114px; float: left&quot; alt=&quot;thumb_lrg6002.jpg&quot; />Tomorrow I&#39;m on a First Aid course which has been going on for the past week (pretty good actually) so that should be good. It&#39;s a pretty good feeling knowing that you can save (or preserve) someone&#39;s life and you know exactly how to do it. It goes.. DRACB, Danger, Response, Airway, Circulation, Breathing. Yes, that&#39;s right, it&#39;s <em>not</em> ABC anymore to all you lay people. It&#39;s a matter of what&#39;s going to kill you first. Klara and I are doing the training along with a few other colleagues so it&#39;s all good, we&#39;ve been testing each other and stuff. She is great.<br /><br />Now I must sleep and rest my weary mind for it is fragile. Goodnight!<br />