"James A. Bohnsack" <[email protected]> wrote :- > I've accidentally shutdown the main production system "once", > as has every systems programmer with whom I worked or who > worked for me has done.
Yes - mine was quite a silly one (although I did not actually press the key). A very many years ago I walked into a site that was having some problems building their new system. They had it up 2nd level and it was running like a dog, so I said to shut it down. They typed SHUTDOWN on the 2nd level operator console but, because it was running so slow, the SHUTDOWN was picked up by the 1st level guest machine and they closed down the 1st level system. It took me a while to explain to them that the userid they were running in did not need all the privilege classes in order to run the commands 2nd level ;-) Once I had succeeded then they said 'Oh, we wondered why this kept happening' Colin Allinson VM Systems Support Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
