Unix horror stories
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 12:01:24 EDT 2006
On 8/29/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
Indeed. No system is perfect, and knowing the faults, limitations,
and issues of what you have will help immeasurably.
> 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.
That file is an "Internet classic". I think it dates from the early 1990's.
> Are system less error prone?
HAH!
> Are sysadmins and users making fewer errors?
Double HAH!
> Are people not sharing thier stories?
Hmmm, that I don't know. :-)
One of my best screw-ups ever: I once accidentally wrote a script
that ended up trying to remove every RPM package from a system.
(Think "rpm --erase *".) Damned if it didn't try to do it. The
system actually got about two-thirds of the way through when I noticed
that xterm was filling with complaints like "/usr/bin/perl: No such
file or directory"...
-- Ben
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