I once rebooted a Unix server by bumping the protruding reset button with my knee. The next day, I glued some strips of wood around the button so that it was now recessed.
ExOn August 4, 2014 12:40:41 PM CDT, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- 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.
