Funny error that was never fixed. Or am I wrong?

[chris8lunch]

When things like HTTPD go down I get this sent to my email, as I'm sure the rest of you do!

httpd failed @ Tue Sep 26 21:34:40 2006. A restart was attempted automagicly.

Is this a spelling error? I have noticed this for every server I have ever used! Shouldn't it be automatically?

Thanks.

 

[dgbaker]

au·to·mag·ic·ly

adv : Something that happens automatically with no user input or interaction.


automagically: /aw?toh?maj?i?klee/, adv.
Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.”

This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.



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