On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:29:30PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: >But I've often wondered how frequently a production system has such >problems. I've been a sysadmin for many years and can't remember this >ever happening. It's much more common to blow a hard drive, or have >flaky memory, etc.
We've had a customer whose "system administrator" installed a root cronjob including "rm -r / somedirectory/tmp" (note the space) - on all four production machines as well as their model system. (The person in question is a classic example of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"). The console logs (which were on another unaffected system) made interesting reading - he had spent a significant amount of time attempting to reboot the systems before calling for help. Peter _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
