{"id":2606,"date":"2009-12-21T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2009-12-21T06:37:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:37:02","slug":"funnyeverything-sysadmin-a-list-of-dumb-things-to-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/funnyeverything-sysadmin-a-list-of-dumb-things-to-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny::Everything Sysadmin: a list of dumb things to check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hen you are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Debugging\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debugging\">debugging<\/a> a problem for hours and hours, you suddenly realize, &#8220;I bet it&#8217;s something really dumb!&#8221; It often is. Therefore, we present&#8230;<br \/>\na list of dumb things to check<br \/>\nUpdate: 2009-11-25: People keep referring to this as if it was something I wrote to be funny. Damn it, this list is 100% true! These are all things that have happened to me and made me think, &#8220;I better write that down to help me remember it!&#8221; Even the last item!<br \/>\n<strong>Layer 0 &#8211; PEBKAC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Caps lock\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caps_lock\">CapsLock<\/a> is off. (Same for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scroll lock\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scroll_lock\">ScrollLock<\/a> and NumLock)<\/li>\n<li>Type it again (without using <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cut, copy, and paste\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cut%2C_copy%2C_and_paste\">cut-and-paste<\/a>) and see if you get the same results. (good way to find a typo) (or a unicode &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Whitespace (computer science)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitespace_%28computer_science%29\">whitespace<\/a>&#8221; char)<\/li>\n<li>Use cut-and-paste to copy that variable name (or <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Uniform Resource Locator\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uniform_Resource_Locator\">URL<\/a>, commmand line, etc.) to see if it was entered correctly.<\/li>\n<li>Are the binaries really the ones you think are running? (Did you install in single <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"User space\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_space\">user mode<\/a> when \/opt wasn&#8217;t mounted? Can you check the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MD5\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MD5\">md5<\/a> or sha1 checksum vs. a machine that is running properly?)<\/li>\n<li>Check the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"File system permissions\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_system_permissions\">file permissions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Are you really on the host you think you are?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/everythingsysadmin.com\/dumb-things-to-check.html\">Everything Sysadmin: a list of dumb things to check<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m officially adopting this list as a filter for people asking for help. If you haven&#8217;t done\/checked if the stupid stuff is the one that is the stubling block do not ask for help. Exception is if you are hot!!! heheh!! joke joke joke!!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d6537e8e-9469-482b-b632-f87f873bb3ab\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hen you are debugging a problem for hours and hours, you suddenly realize, &#8220;I bet it&#8217;s something really dumb!&#8221; It often is. Therefore, we present&#8230; a list of dumb things to check Update: 2009-11-25: People keep referring to this as if it was something I wrote to be funny. Damn it, this list is 100% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/funnyeverything-sysadmin-a-list-of-dumb-things-to-check\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Funny::Everything Sysadmin: a list of dumb things to check&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,62,78,79],"tags":[294,406,427,555,1034,1145,1259,1452],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-personal-angol","category-rant","category-reposts","tag-caps-lock","tag-cut-copy-and-paste","tag-debugging","tag-file-system-permissions","tag-numlock","tag-programming","tag-scroll-lock","tag-uniform-resource-locator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}