Setting no read/write/exec perms on all files and subdirs in a certain folder
on a shared user system...
root@local: chmod -R 000 /
instead of,
chmod -R 000 ./
it took a while to get it all back running!
On Friday 19 August 2011 10:21:06 Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Hi All
>
> As it's friday a
Hm. Sat in a coffee shop, decided to tidy things on the laptop. By
uninstalling old kernels.
Nothing wrong in that. Just type the version number of the OLD ones, not the
kernel that's actually running...
RC
On 19 August 2011 23:41, Mark Hindess wrote:
>
> In message <
> cacaqtbfhsn+b1twem0fxy
In message ,
Edward Beckmann writes:
>
> Hi All
>
> As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at
> my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing
> typos or human errors. Examples could be:
>
> who can do the most damage to a system with t
About 25 years ago, I got to the 29th floppy disk out of 30 when installing
SCO UNIX on a PC and mistakenly hit the PC's power button rather than the
floppy disk eject button.
Suffice it to say, there was no "Continue installation" option, I had to
start all over again and sit there for another 2
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Michael Pavling wrote:
On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an AS/400
crossing my legs whi
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 19:12, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:01:17PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
>> how about this one that I have actually performed myself:
>>
>> rm -rf .*
> Are you sure? Was this not Linux? "rm" on Linux doesn't recurse
> through ..:
>
>
Hi Daniel,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:01:17PM +0100, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
> how about this one that I have actually performed myself:
>
> rm -rf .*
>
> the scenario was I wanted to delete all folders in a subtree including
> folders beginning with a dot (.) to hide them from a normal ls
> lis
On Friday 19 Aug 2011, Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
> > Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
> > opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
>
> I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an AS/400
> crossing
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[mailto:hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Edward Beckmann
Sent: 19 August 2011 10:21
To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Hampshire] error competition
Funnily enough, today I did
rm -rf *
but in a directory which
> Yes, I did have a backup.
Some weeks back, a customer of mine typed something like
make proj=foo clean
To clean up his project. Except that he didn't. He typed
make proj= foo clean
The Makefile wasn't all that well written, so when it tried to rm -rf
./$proj , it did quite a number on the r
On 08/19/2011 10:21 AM, Edward Beckmann wrote:
Hi All
As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan
at my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for
amusing typos or human errors.
A while ago I typed
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2
when I meant
** Edward Beckmann [2011-08-19 13:36]:
> Thanks guys - really brightened my day (though Sean, your datacentre story
> bears a remarkable resemblance to the series of deaths in a certain hospital
> bed where the polisher was plugged in instead of the monitors ;-) ).
>
> Funny the lack of windows s
Thanks guys - really brightened my day (though Sean, your datacentre story
bears a remarkable resemblance to the series of deaths in a certain hospital
bed where the polisher was plugged in instead of the monitors ;-) ).
Funny the lack of windows stories - is it because it is difficult to tell
the
how about this one that I have actually performed myself:
rm -rf .*
the scenario was I wanted to delete all folders in a subtree including
folders beginning with a dot (.) to hide them from a normal ls
listing. instead it deleted everything in the subtree .. AND
everything in the supertree (../ t
Good datacentre story: in one of our Mediterranean branches numerous boxes
would crash out inexplicably at the same time each week.
In the end it was decided to put someone in the datacentre an hour or so before
the event.
What he witnessed was a cleaner show up with a bucket and mop, power of
On 19 August 2011 10:32, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann
> wrote:
> > what duff error gives the most spectacular failure?
>
> Someone in an Ubuntu support channel complained of data loss when he'd
> run rsync with "--delete" and had the source and destination the wron
On 19 August 2011 11:48, Victor Churchill wrote:
> Thank goodness for '--dry-run' ...
>
Indeed, that was the second thing he learned that day after the
sequence of parameters :D
Al.
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On 19 August 2011 10:32, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann
> wrote:
> > what duff error gives the most spectacular failure?
>
> Someone in an Ubuntu support channel complained of data loss when he'd
> run rsync with "--delete" and had the source and destination the wron
On 19 August 2011 11:35, Paul Tansom wrote:
>
> Oddly these days I seem to have the opposite effect. I often get to a customer
> and find they can no longer replicated the problem that was easy to reproduce
> before I got there!
>
I got that one. I turn up, wait in reception chatting to the
recep
On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Hi All
> As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at
> my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing
> typos or human errors. Examples could be:
> who can do the most damage to a system with
** Victor Churchill [2011-08-19 11:01]:
> On 19 August 2011 10:31, Michael Pavling wrote:
> > On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann
> > wrote:
> > > Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
> > > opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
> >
> > I have flicked the o
On 19 August 2011 11:18, s...@funkygibbins.me.uk
wrote:
> Spare a thought for the hapless soul at our place who thought the big red
> button he was pressing would test the fire alarm instead of powering down
> our entire shiny new office.
>
Ooh, friend of mine did that because the button to shut
Spare a thought for the hapless soul at our place who thought the big red
button he was pressing would test the fire alarm instead of powering down our
entire shiny new office.
To compound the error the test was rescheduled for the following week and
whoever was conducting it did exactly the s
Pointing the reset vector of a pdp11 at the trigger power down register.
Power up reset, three bus cycles, power off.
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On 19 August 2011 10:31, Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann
> wrote:
> > Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
> > opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
>
> I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an AS/400
> cro
On 19/08/11 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Hi All
>
> As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at
> my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing
> typos or human errors. Examples could be:
>
> who can do the most damage to a system with
On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
> what duff error gives the most spectacular failure?
Someone in an Ubuntu support channel complained of data loss when he'd
run rsync with "--delete" and had the source and destination the wrong
way round. Goodbye data!
Al.
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> who can do the most damage to a system with the fewest number of
> keystrokes?
root@goliath # mount /dev/sda12 /mnt/whatthehellisthis
root@goliath # rm -rf /mnt/whatthehellisthis/*
root@goliath # mount | grep var
/dev/sda12 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enou
On 19 August 2011 10:21, Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
> opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."
I have flicked the off-switch (pesky old-style toggles) on an AS/400
crossing my legs while sitting at a terminal in the computer room.
Hi All
As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at
my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing
typos or human errors. Examples could be:
who can do the most damage to a system with the fewest number of keystrokes?
what duff error gives
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