I think we can dub today as “Sysadmin Black Friday”! First thing for me today was an outage at OSUOSL (that is still being investigated) circa 11:34 UTC which took offline phpBB as well as all other hosted projects such as Freenode, Mozillazine, Drupal, Gentoo, et cetera. I’ve got phpBB back online now and Sysadmins at OSUOSL and other projects are busily beavering away getting their sites back up. :D
Ubuntu made a slight boo-boo in version 5.10 née “Breezy Badger” as the installation log file stored the root password in plain text, that was world readable since the file’s permission bits were set 0644. Patches for said distro are already available to fix the moderately critical brain-fart.
Windows users whom have McAfee as their anti-virus of choice faired little better as the virus definition update DAT 4715 caused a large number of false positives of the W95/CTX virus in executables ranging from Microsoft Office, Dell OpenManage, Cygwin, perl, Sysinternals pstools suite, and so on. McAfee today have release a further definition update by the way of DAT 4716 which should solve the false positive issue, plus release of a tool (buried somewhere on their homepage) to automagically restore mis-quarantined files.
Roll-on System Administrator Appreciation Day! ;)
