Admin horror stories

mike ledoux mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu
Wed Oct 10 16:42:18 EDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:33:07PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> "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 :)

Did you know the ULTRIX distribution tapes will let you install
ULTRIX on a DECStation?

I found that out the hard way.

There was a poor decision involved, in case it wasn't obvious.  :)

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