Admin horror stories

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Oct 9 22:33:07 EDT 2007


"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/9/07, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>> ... I looked in /bin for suspicious files, and that was the
>> first time I ever noticed the file [ . It looked suspicious, so
>> of course I deleted it.  :-/
>
>   Did you know 'rpm' will let you remove every package from the system?

Did you know tar will let you install Ultrix on a Sun ?

Of course, it won't work, as SunOS seems to get very ornery when it
can't read stuff recently "upgraded" to the Ultrix version in
/usr/lib, etc. :)

There was PEBCAK bug involved in case it wasn't obvious :)
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list