Well I usually installed linux in a single partition with a swap partition in
another hard drive for better performance. I never till lately have used extra
partitions for /boot or /usr. However the second hard drive was needed to make a
second pc boot so I ended up with no swap on a pc with 2
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El Vie 07 Feb 2003 05:51, Nicholas Hockey escribió:
| i used to work at sun micro, and while i was there i think i made on of
| the worst mistakes of my life...
The same happened to me. I'm come from Linux world not Solaris, but because
I was one o
Arturo di Gioia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:20, Alan wrote:
>
> > Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories.
>
> My one:
>
> In the home directory of a user on the Tru64 box I 'administer'(1) I
> simply typed
>
> chown -r andrea:people * .*
How about:
cd
Arturo di Gioia wrote:
My one:
Shortly after Mozilla 1.0 was released I decided to go for the next
beta. Downloaded and compiled just fine. Of course as I went to install
the knew Mozilla, it complained that there was an older version and
prompted to remove it or choose another directory t
Sorry about all the grammerical errors i'm very sleepy. i think you understand what i'm trying to say tho
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:51, Nicholas Hockey wrote:
i used to work at sun micro, and while i was there i think i made on of the worst mistakes of my life.
i was logged into our ma
i used to work at sun micro, and while i was there i think i made on of the worst mistakes of my life.
i was logged into our main nfs server, the one that server all the home directories for the entire campus, and i thought i was logged into my machine at home, and typed killall, thinking i was
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:20, Alan wrote:
> Well, ok, maybe not, I have three similar horror stories.
My one:
In the home directory of a user on the Tru64 box I 'administer'(1) I
simply typed
chown -r andrea:people * .*
I soon realized that the second entry of an 'ls' list
is
..
All the home d
here is one mine!!:
cd /home/myuser/
rm -fr / (instead of *)
hehehe i trashed my /bin before the rm comand stoped by himself...
i was in lucky day... i had a copy of /bin... but... well rm -fr /
sucks!!!
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:20, Alan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fre
There's a nice little thread about this over on the Gentoo Forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17076&highlight=mistakes
Thanks,
Kent
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:20:49 -0800
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote:
> > I can top t
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 'inh
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
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:19PM -0800, Fred Van Andel wrote:
> I can top that.
>
> Last Friday instead of typing
>chown -R staff.staff *
> >from the /pub directory, I did it from the root directory
> and changed the ownership of every file on the system.
>
> Needless to say nothing worked
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