[plug] IP Chains

[Bill Cullen]

Kenworthy Family wrote:
> 
> Not only beginners - what "professional" will set up something and not test
> it.  I have seen some prize ones where unix (Solaris & digital unix) systems
> have been "fiddled" with by sysadmins installing software/changing settings,
> not telling the users and then getting paid for an expensive after hours
> callout to fix it after a power outage when it wouldn't boot.  When you look
> into it, it soon becomes obvious where the problem came from!  Often its just
> a simple mistake that a test boot would have found.

Often, you can't do a test reboot of a production system. You can
however, run the startup script for the software and test that
it shuts down and starts back up. Of course, this isn't always
possible either without impacting on production.

Bill
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