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I guess I could rm -Rf /, that might screw things up a bit.

 

I've done that as root, with no bad consequences. Since I was in the root directory at the time, it refused to delete it. That said, I have no idea what it would do if you weren't in the root directory. That sort of commands are like playing Russian roulette with your computer.

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I've done that as root, with no bad consequences. Since I was in the root directory at the time, it refused to delete it. That said, I have no idea what it would do if you weren't in the root directory. That sort of commands are like playing Russian roulette with your computer.

 

Save it as a bash script and run it with cron :)

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This changed the IP address, right? My blog stats have been in the tank the last ~day, and I couldn't connect at work; that's explained by the DNS needing to catch up.

 

Yeah. They should catch up fairly quickly -- the most anyone should cache the DNS information is a day or two (even though I explicitly set the maximum cache time to 1 hour, some ISPs ignore it). I'm surprised that blog stats are in the tank though. I think the trouble is that a lot of the bots (like Google and other companies that crawl blogs) cache DNS for a reaaaally long time to save their servers some work, so it'll take them a little while.

 

If stats are still low in a few days I'd start getting worried.

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Yeah. They should catch up fairly quickly -- the most anyone should cache the DNS information is a day or two (even though I explicitly set the maximum cache time to 1 hour, some ISPs ignore it). I'm surprised that blog stats are in the tank though. I think the trouble is that a lot of the bots (like Google and other companies that crawl blogs) cache DNS for a reaaaally long time to save their servers some work, so it'll take them a little while.

 

If stats are still low in a few days I'd start getting worried.

 

Of course, all three of those people could have just coincidentally gone on vacation ;)

 

And/or, I just noticed the timestamp is messed up. The last entry is 2330, but right now it's 1850, so it looks like it's on UTC. It could have just dropped four hours' worth of stats, though that should have caught up yesterday.

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I think the old server's default timezone was Central time, whereas the new uses British Standard Time. (Unless the script specifically asks for GMT/UTC, it gets the default timezone). You'll also notice that times on the forum are no longer 17 minutes slow.

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