January 8, 2010
#686: Admin Mourning explain

[The text is over a white-on-black terminal showing a bit of output from ps -el | grep sam, with processes running from root and sam.]
When a user dies, their connections time out,
but their screen sessions linger.
[The end of the command line is a |grep sam.]
The server’s uptime grows
because you can’t bring yourself to reboot
and wipe out
their last earthly presence
[The processes listed are screen, zsh, irssi, and grep sam.]
the ghost in zshell.