Chasing Coffee

Goodbye Vimes

For a couple of years now I've had a P200 OpenBSD2.9 Firewall (named Vimes after the watchman from Discworld) sitting in a closet quietly doing it's thing without any need for human intervention. For various personal reasons it's become desirable to move over to a wireless network, which includes a router with a built in firewall. When I went to log into Vimes locally one last time I had to wipe a thick layer of dust off the keyboard. The dust would have been thicker, but we swapped in a semi-broken keyboard because we needed the spare good one.

So, let's all raise a glass (or mug of coffee) in salute to a good machine that did a good job.


11:51PM up 488 days, 19:37, 1 user, load averages: 0.20, 0.13, 0.09
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
root p1 192.168.1.100 11:50PM 0 w
vimes# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 968061 90893 828765 10% /
/dev/wd0d 241823 1 229731 0% /tmp
/dev/wd0e 2616441 5028 2480591 0% /var
vimes# shutdown -h now
Shutdown NOW!
shutdown: [pid 994]
vimes#

*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@vimes ***
System going down IMMEDIATELY


Sep 15 23:51:37 vimes shutdown: halt by root:

System shutdown time has arrived
Connection to 192.168.1.1 closed by remote host.
Connection to 192.168.1.1 closed.


Sleep well, good fellow. Your replacement may be smaller, faster, and lighter, but it will never carry the pride I had in you.

Posted by matt at September 16, 2003 12:14 AM