Not a human error example, but in the "reboot in wrong window" vein...
We had some servers with serial consoles connected through some of those A/B-style serial switch boxes. Switched the box to the correct system, logged in as root and rebooted it. One or two other systems rebooted as well. It turned out the switch box was failing somehow and it was sending to all ports. Some of the other systems on that switch box had the same root password, so they also logged in and complied with the command... (Needless to say, that switch box was promptly replaced.) =Dave Matt Simmons wrote: > > ...and 3, as it turns out, but mine was worse. > > All I'm going to say is that on the old Dell PowerEdge DRAC interfaces, the > "Power Cycle Server Module" and the "Power Cycle Chassis" buttons look a > lot a like. > > And honestly, why is there even a "Power Cycle Chassis" button. > > Double sigh. > > --Matt > > > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Thought you might enjoy these UNIX horror stories ft om BBlisa. > >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>> From: "A. P. Garcia" <[email protected]> > >>> Date: Oct 12, 2012 3:42 PM > >>> Subject: [TUHS] unix horror stories > >>> To: <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> > >>> Story 3: > >>> /etc/reboot - then noticing you were in the wrong window... > >>> -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Architect Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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/
