Unix horror stories

[Tom Buskey]

On 8/28/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I read this once, ages ago, and just came across it again.  Good
> stuff.  Not only entertaining, but educational.  I learned a lot from
> reading it.
>
>   It helps to know that this document dates from an era when *nix OSes
> came on tape, GNU utilities were rare (if they existed yet at all),
> and propriatary vendor-specific brain damage was universal.
>
>   http://www.ima.umn.edu/~ewing/horror.txt


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook is also worth looking
at.  I have the paperback somewhere on the shelf at home.

It's interesting that most of these horror stories are older.  I don't see
many that mention Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, (newer) Solaris, etc.

Are system less error prone?
Are sysadmins and users making fewer errors?
Are people not sharing thier stories?
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