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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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    #11
    Backup mounted on the same machine. Well, that's not really a backup. That's just a copy. Marsala be like

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      #12
      Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
      Windows 95 in 1993?
      They were on 3.1. I used Petzold!

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        #13
        Many of the responses to Mr Marsala’s problem weren’t especially helpful – pointing out that he could have taken steps to stop it happening before it did.
        He should have come to CUK first then shouldn't he

        Many of the responses to Mr Marsala’s problem weren’t especially helpful – pointing out that he could have spoken to his accountant first
        Sorted.
        Last edited by northernladuk; 14 April 2016, 14:29.
        'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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          #14
          Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
          Here's his original question on Server Fault: Recovering from a rm -rf /
          Lots of marked as favourite and upvotes. He is famous for all the wrong reasons.

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            #15
            Could have been worse :-

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

            On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital deployed untested software to a production environment which contained an obsolete function. The incident happened due to a technician forgetting to copy the new Retail Liquidity Program (RLP) code to one of the eight SMARS computer servers, which was Knight's automated routing system for equity orders. RLP code repurposed a flag that was formerly used to activate the old function known as 'Power Peg'. Power Peg was designed to move stock prices higher and lower in order to verify the behavior of trading algorithms in a controlled environment.[12] Therefore, orders sent with the repurposed flag to the eighth server triggered the defective Power Peg code still present on that server.[13] When released into production, Knight's trading activities caused a major disruption in the prices of 148 companies listed at the New York Stock Exchange, thus, for example, shares of Wizzard Software Corporation went from $3.50 to $14.76. For the 212 incoming parent orders that were processed by the defective Power Peg code, Knight Capital sent millions of child orders, resulting in 4 million executions in 154 stocks for more than 397 million shares in approximately 45 minutes.[13] Knight Capital took a pre-tax loss of $440 million. This caused Knight Capital's stock price to collapse, sending shares lower by over 70% from before the announcement. The nature of the Knight Capital's unusual trading activity was described as a "technology breakdown".[14][15]

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              #16
              Looks like my centos troll post was believed....

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                #17
                No mention of who this person is, which forum, when it happened, any details of the location, any shred of evidence any of that is true.

                Is the Indepenent the new CUK?

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                  #18
                  This would never have happened with Windows.

                  IT equivalent of the darwin awards.
                  Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

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                    #19
                    At one place I was at we'd added a NAS and a change doc went round to implemtment it) basically to add a directory and change perms on it) on quite a lot of server, about 1500 SPARC boxes ISTR.

                    The critcial line sould have been;

                    chown -R someuser:somegroup /nas/

                    but the draft twunt typed;

                    chown -R someuser:somegroup /nas /

                    in the doc (note the space) and then further daft twunts copied and pasted it and ran it rather than typing it out. Course it chowned the whole box filesystem to some non-priv user and effed it up royally.

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                      #20
                      There's also a Reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/co...r_not_me_just/

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