Well, I thought today was going pretty well... Great China for lunch, Dave and left early and went to go see the $3.75 showing of The Italian Job. Then I get home and drop in a DVD of Speed 2 I recorded off TV. Turns out either the burner machine hit the 2GB file limit or I didn't actually have a full recording, since it cut off near the end... So I wander back over to the computer to discover that Bethel's NIS+ server crashed again (taking down pretty much every unix service). And the guy that knows how it works is two states away and his cell phone is off... And I'm sorta the backup person, but since we're getting rid of NIS+ very soon and I'm just starting as the backup person, I wasn't gonna even bother to learn it/get trained on it... I guess I got a crash course taught by myself since everything's up now (I think). Email servers are struggling under the load a bit (the load spiked at over 200 on one - you can't expect to effectively shut off email to a college for 2+ hours and not have a huge flood when you turn it back on), and I had to manually give MIMEDefang a kick in the butt on one of them. Of course that machine was the one that's normally stable, and I had been given a warning that the other one may give me minor hastles since it has possible hardware issues, so I wanted to get the "good" box back on it's feet rather than depend on the redundant box. Not exactly the way I expected to spend my night... Oh well, Jeff is back from Canada so we're going to lunch tomorrow, which will force a bit of a break no matter what the fallout from the nscd bomb ends up being...