On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:54:00PM -0700, Tom Perrine wrote: > So, what's your most memorable command line typo, "think-o", > "brain-fart", or "#$$@#$*&@#$" moment? > > What subtle opportunity for massive destruction would you pass on as a > warning to the next generation of system administrators?
So, I totally blame this one on lack of instruction from my co-workers. I'd been doing linux and solaris administration for maybe a month or two, and was oncall late in the machine room one night. As I was getting ready to head out, I figured I'd be conscientious and turn off the monitors (one of my duties during the previous job as a lab assistant in the same CS dept.). Well, no one had ever pointed out to me that the tiny little green monochrome "monitor" connected to the main DNS server (a Sparc 5, I believe) for the department was ... different. Yeh... it was a VT102 (or something similar). So, when I turned the bloody thing off, it sent an L1-A serial break to the machine... from my vague recollections, I didn't actually get paged until I was almost back at my dorm. And that's when I learned that the best way to learn things is to break stuff! :) _______________________________________________ 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/
