Grumpy and mostly helpful

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Yesterday I had a session with R, ate lunch from Rooted in the CC, and
spent the rest of the afternoon bashing on T’s servers. LDAP is still a
problem, and I’ve dug far enough into the mailing list archives to reach
the jerks who just say rtfm and insult others’ intelligence. Each of the
servers is also running sendmail for some ungodly reason, and the queues
filled up to the point of rejecting connections because of several cron
jobs (one every five minutes) hanging when they tried to access a stuck nfs
share. There are backups, both manual and automatic, of config files you
should never edit directly. No idea what my predecessor thought they were
doing.

P had the car on campus so we went to geagle on the way home and got almond
butter, dairy, and some stuff for the kitchen sink.

Dinner, P discovered a batch of forgotten romanesco whose funk we were
blaming on the sink, the crossword was quite challenging, and then bed.