Re: epona.vuxu.org outage post mortem

[Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space>]

Hi Leah,

> My assumption was there was a runaway instance of socat running (for
> unknown reasons), and I decided to kill all socat instances.  My usual
> tool of choice would have been `killall socat`, but as there were other
> socat instances running on the machine, I only wanted to kill the port
> 3722 ones.
>
> Lessons learned:
> - The first intuition is often right, even if it's not plausible at first.
> - Don't use `pkill -f` as root, at least not without careful checking
>   and regexp anchoring.
> - If a box doesn't react to reset requests, try sending wake-on-lan to
>   turn it on.
> - runit should reboot by default, not shutdown!

Or track the origin of the issue (runaway socat instance), did you find
anything?

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