yeah.. this one isn't too bad either, but i'm new to the field... i had just been hired, and working on a backup script that used `slay` to kick users off the system... yea, this machine had a huge uptime and was running nis, qmail, bind, etc etc.. i had never even seen it boot before, as i 'inherited' it. so first time around, this script immediately `slay`s all root processes (oops) and frys the vga card because X was running (who knows why previous admin even had x11 installed). it was so comfortable to get it *out* of the server cluster and open it up (um... not). boy did i learn a thing or two about rpc/nis/nfs that night :) fun.
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:35:41AM +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories. > > Here is one that happened to me -- not incapacitating, but it > surprised me a bit (this was when I still ran Red Hat); it was caused > by me pausing to think after writing rpm the first time... > > rpm rpm -e somepackage > > After this I tried to use rpm -qip somepackage to check whether it > really was uninstalled... And got "bash: rpm: command not found". > > > alan > > -- > Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." > http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ''Wisdom is the companion of patience'' ,-~~-.___. / | ' \ ( ) 0 \_/-, ,----' ==== // / \-'~; /~~~(O) / __/~| / | =( _____| (_________| Brett Ryan Campbell Systems Administrator, CAD Research Center Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frameset_content/content_about_us.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
