After umpteen years....out of the blue my manager in dealing with out of space on our configuration management server (a SunOS 4.1.4 box) decided that the first thing she would delete is the big /vmunix file. ========== When I was a student, I've used "kill -1 1" to deal with run away programs (especially the fork variety)... or some program I found on USENET.
spawn ten daemons is for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) fork(); right? I knew that wasn't right, but my lab partner didn't.... But, then I got my first student gig....I was doing graphics programming, but I was also doing some sa work...so I had root. well, doing 'kill -1 1' as root on a hospital unix server didn't go over so well.... manager laughed it off....a few years earlier his boss in dealing with a disk full problem did: % ls /tmp <what's with all this stuff in here, I'm going to remove it all> % rm -fr * some while later somebody stopped by about strange errors they were getting. Guess what his current working directory was when he did those two commands.... ========== At my last job....after spending several months working on an enhancement (so not committed into the change management system)....a few days before I was do try getting through code review....I went to remove all the .o files to do a clean build....but instead of typing "rm *.o" I typed "rm * .o". After a long pause, I was informed that ".o" was not found. Yup....my work directory was empty. Good thing I wasn't doing the development on my workstation, like most are supposed to. When the company centralized IT, they stopped backing up desktops/workstations. On 5/13/2011 7:24 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > I had a summer student who thought it was the coolest thing ever to use "kill > -9 -1" to log out. I did not know about that. He had done a good job for > everything I had asked him to, and was thorough and careful, so I started to > let him do more important tasks and gave him the root password... This is > years ago when OSes did not protect against this. > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
