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When trying to put our webserver-cum-database-server onto nagios, I tried to apt-get install nagios-plugins. For some reason when installing that, apt wanted to remove mysql-server. I just pressed "Y" without thinking (because, hey, it's like 99.9999999% the right thing to do). So apt dutifuly stopped and uninstalled MySQL in the middle of the day.

Within about 2 minutes CTO strolls in asking about the flood of exception emails due to each request being unable to connect to the database.

Thankfully, I was able to apt-get install mysql-server, all the data was still there, and things were back to normal within 5 minutes.




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