Packing for Denmark

Our network is moving to Denmark, and it's an exciting time. Along the way, we are virtualizing everything.

Sure, a computer can easily be for removed from an operator. People do that all the time with web servers but, do they virtualize their engineers? We're doing that.

Imagine how many files are misnamed in manual intervention. One such error came today. Nearly 10% of a massive server upgrade file inventory were named googlehostedservice.htm and the missing "l" is a real show stopper.

for i in `ls /var/www/virtual/*/htdocs/googlehostedservice.htm` ; do mv $i "$i"l ; done

Some problems are easy.

Of course the automated file generation had no such problem

#
# Acquired during first googleapp session
# (observed to persist per workstation/task)
read googleSession
#
# changes per iteration
read domain
#
# by default, vbase is /var/www/virtual
read vbase
cat <<EOF>>$vbase$domain/htdocs/googlehostedservice.html
$googleSession
EOF