I have had my share of "Oh no!" moments. My worst was I was remoted into a box and I had mounted a CD on a server in my office from a server at the other end of the city. I loaded the software without a hitch. But when I went to unmount the cd through the admin applet I hit enter as the words unmount were highlighted I noticed the asterisk was on the /u file system. I lucked out getting things back to normal but as I ran out of my office and into my car people in the office were wondering what happened. Worst feeling in the world. As my signature always says about the headlight, that day it was the train.
John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> David Bronder <[email protected]> 10/25/2012 10:58 AM >>> 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 http://lopsa.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/
