Admin horror stories (was: Shell Quoting)

[Ric Werme]

Bill McGonigle once learned:

> rm lets you remove libc too.  DAMHINT.

I managed to salvage one system because I had NFS-exported / and
could gain write access from another system.

After that I often did the export before replacing humorless files
like libc.so and sometimes did the update with NFS.  It was a
struggle to remember to type the /mnt before the /etc/passwd so
I tried to cd to the target directory copy files in.

  -Ric Werme