> Figuring out problems like this when nobody else can and saving the day makes you feel like a wizard.

You're right. It was an awesome intellectual high each time.

But only the first time. Eventually seeing the same stupid problem come back got tedious. Thank goodness our systems continue to evolve. It's so long since I've seen a leaky environment at service startup cause problems that I'd forgotten it was a thing.

I don't understand anyone that seems to think UNIX was perfected in 1983 with the release of System V. We've learned so much since then by standing on the shoulders of giants.