On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote:
> I can top that.
>
> Last Friday instead of typing
> chown -R staff.staff *
> >from the /pub directory, I did it from the root directory
> and changed the ownership of every file on the system.
>
> Needless to say nothing worked quite right after that.
>
> Fortunately the machine hadn't gone into service yet so I
> was able re reinstall without to much problem.
>
> I suppose every admin does something like that at least
> once.
No, I think you are the first.
Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories.
1 - (not me) chmod -R www-data.www-data * in the wrong directory (with
similar results :)
2 - (me)
# cd /etc
# ls backup/
# rm *
"oops"
3 - (not me) Similar to the above, except he removed the /admin
directory on a web application project that he had been working on for
the last couple of weeks.
10 min before the customer called the boss to find out the status.
Needless to say he spent a few late nights getting it all re-written :)
alan
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