[ILUG-Social] [kevin@ivory.ora.com: (fwd) Re: Humorous joke in Slowlaris 2.5]

[kevin lyda]

digging around my humor folder to cheer some folks up.  came across this,
thought it might fit in here...

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From: Steve VanDevender <stevev at hexadecimal.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: Humorous joke in Slowlaris 2.5
Date: 23 Oct 1996 15:09:10 -0700

madhatta at mathworks.com (Tom Yates) writes:
> as someone who thought the "tune a fish" man page joke was one of the
> more bearable bits of SunOS, and who missed it when it went, i am pleased
> to report the following line from the /etc/init.d/yp script included
> in the Solaris Naming Services Transition Kit [1]
> ( part# SUNWhydidweinventNIS+? ).  after starting up ypserv, it sits
> for a moment to reflect on the mysteries of life, with the following line
> which i am not making up:
>           sleep 1 # we gave peace a chance, why not ypserv?
> 
> anyone else find anything else remotely amusing in Solaris?

Seen in /etc/init.d/inetsvc, also from a Slolaris 2.5 system:

#
# Run inetd in "standalone" mode (-s flag) so that it doesn't have
# to submit to the will of SAF.  Why did we ever let them change inetd?
#
/usr/sbin/inetd -s -t

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