On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 12:21, Nicolas Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:
Le 26/12/2020 à 18:14, Scott Robbins a écrit :
I'm sure all of us have done, if not this, something equally embarrassing like posting a private reply to an email or doing dd with the wrong destination, etc.
Then let's make a little contest out of it: what's the most stupid thing you've done as a system administrator ?
I'm a ten-finger-typer, and I rarely look at the keyboard. Which is a bad thing when your focus is on the wrong terminal. So a few years ago I happened to type "ssh root@some-remote-server.com <ENTER> <ROOTPASSWORD> <ENTER>", vaguely sensed in the corner of my eye that something was wrong and discovered to my horror that I just posted it on a densely populated IRC channel.
Your turn. :o)
2 am clean up of disk space to get email servers working again discover a large tree of temp files from a shared service in /usr/<account name> # remember before /home? /bin/rm -rf . /* ^c up-arrow spew coffee and swearing go get reinstall cdrom and backup tapes