First UNIX admin job, logged into server thinking it was the local desktop and rebooted it. Lots of egg on the face and lots of wasted end user hours.
I took drastic action to triple verify where I was logged in after that. Sometimes being a bit OCD is learned by not being OCD enough. I had also shut down mainframes before that with similar results (a few times on purpose, a couple of times accidently when working as a systems programmer in a large IBM shop). Mainframes had 2000 logged in (about 8000 users in the directory that could log in) and Unix machine only had about 200 users (it was where their home directories were located over NFS). Never really got into trouble for it, but I flogged myself more than any boss ever would over the issue. ... such is life. We go on. Company survived. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Allen Minix <rmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:23:47 AM UTC-5, Howard wrote: >> >> >> Okay, I'm looking on the wrong server. Move along, these are not the >> droids you are looking for. >> >> Howard >> > > If I had a nickel for every time I've done that... > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
