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January 8, 2010

#686: Admin Mourning explain

Admin Mourning

[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.