On 8/29/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
