I forgot this one... Not much of a warning to anybody but funny really. My first ever job as a sysadmin. I didn't know how time worked on UNIX. I was the only sysadmin. The weekend of the time change was coming up, so I thought I'd be pro-active and work a bit later than everybody on friday night, and change the time. I let everybody know I needed to reboot the machine (I tought I had to, this was years ago, before anybody had really implemented change management).
I come back on monday, and find out the time had changed a second time! The envelope with the root password looked like it hadn't been tampered with, the machines uptime said they had not been rebooted since that friday. This place was full of very bright people, so I spent the next two days trying to figure out who was so intelligent and such a troll to do this to me in such a way that I could not figure out what had happened. Eventually I decided to try to figure out how he had done it, this is early 90s when there was no access to usenet and mailing lists outside universities, so I started reading all the man pages related to date in time. That day I learned how time worked on UNIX! -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ http://blog.zioup.org/ _______________________________________________ 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/
