[Yesterday: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n
Yesterday I got a call from a fellow in Longmont wanting me to send a particular file as an email at the end of every time we run this particular program.\u00a0 I had to do a little bit of research into how to make this work, but it was soon evident.\u00a0 I tested it out on the most recent output from that program and it worked ok.<\/p>\n
The next thing to change was our job submission script called gjajobs.shl.\u00a0 I edited that to put in the new command.<\/p>\n
There’s a bit of funkyness about the gjajobs.shl file.\u00a0 When that file runs it creates another temporary file that has a list of commands in it for running a job.\u00a0 And my new command had to be wrapped up so that it would go into the temporary file which is where it actually runs.<\/p>\n
I then did a little test to see if I messed any of the file syntax up.\u00a0 It all looked OK.<\/p>\n
<here’s where I made a mistake><\/p>\n
This morning I found out that no jobs had run after I made my change, and there was a lot of cleanup work that had to be done, mostly by other folks.\u00a0 So, I ended up causing about 5 people to have to change their plans for today, a couple of them are spending significant time cleaning up my mess.\u00a0 Grr.<\/p>\n
Ok, so my mistake was that the gjajobs.shl file, being a shell script, doesn’t find syntax errors until the line with the bad syntax is actually parsed and in play.\u00a0 I needed a more extensive test to exercise the part of the file I changed.\u00a0 I should have gone into the Longmont VPN and run some job of some sort, a customer listing or something would have done it.\u00a0 But getting into the Longmont VPN requires rebooting my PC and I tried the shortcut, with some close peering at my work.\u00a0 The peering didn’t do the job.<\/p>\n
I’m not the only one who makes messes, but I do my share.\u00a0 And sometimes it’s someone else’s mess that causes me to do the clean-up thing.\u00a0 I would rather not be the source of this kind of trouble.<\/p>\n
Computer systems seem to run pretty well over time.\u00a0 When something goes wrong it is almost always because something has changed.\u00a0 Sometimes I feel like I do better if I just keep my hands off of stuff!<\/p>\n
My last blunder, about 6 weeks ago, was because a change a year before set us up for failure and I did not do enough to build a reminder to fix it before it happened.\u00a0 There’s always an exception to the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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