>>>>> "Jan" == Jan L Peterson <jan.l.peter...@gmail.com> writes:
Jan> Don't discount that nightly rsync to a second (normally unmounted) Jan> disk. That policy saved us one time when a junior admin added a new Jan> account to an internal Solaris 2.5.1 box by using Jan> echo 'user:uid:etc.etc.etc.' > /etc/passwd Jan> instead of using the provided tools. Yeah, the password file suddenly Jan> became one line long. We were able to boot from the mirror and restore Jan> the previous day's password file. Jan> At least he has a good story to tell during an interview when asked Jan> to describe a mistake he made and what he learned from it. :-) I would be lying if I said I never had to look at that second drive. Why do you think my ZFS snaps are so frequent? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
