Beware the PICL Daemon!

[bigmacbear]

As it happens, Solaris (Sun's version of Unix) provides something called the Platform Independent Control Library (or PICL for short), which has a component that runs as a system service (or daemon in Unix terminology). I kept getting dinged at work because when many of the systems I work on were built, PICL was not installed because at the time it only supported the newer systems from Sun. So after asking what this PICL daemon was, I thought I'd draw a cartoon of it. Behold:



By the way, the other text at the top refers to another Solaris feature, Flash Archives (or flar's for short). It asks simply, "Where have all the flar's gone?"

OK, I'll stop.

Comments

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I had to disable the PICL daemon on several of our V480s back in the day because it would throw false temperature-overload warnings constantly. The first time they told me about this daemon I was like "no, seriously? There's a pickle daemon?"

I approve of this humor.

Re: I approve of this humor

[gmjambear]

That's good to know. It goes over my head.