ARGGHH!!

[xoggoth]

I once got a weekend in Germany because someone did an rm -rf * at root level

.

Not quite sure how they did but got my highest paying contract because somebody once deleted lot of stuff on a military simulator I worked on a few years before and they had no backup.

[d000hg]

I once typed * in the directory of the overnight batch jobs.
Thought 'oops' and pressed controlC, but it carried on and ran every single one of the bloody things. Payment runs, the lot.
The system admin wasn't very happy with me.

It's the sysadmin's fault for allowing random people to run the payment run whenever they wish.

[vetran]

It's the sysadmin's fault for allowing random people to run the payment run whenever they wish.

you calling MS random?

[unixman]

I once typed * in the directory of the overnight batch jobs.
Thought 'oops' and pressed controlC, but it carried on and ran every single one of the bloody things. Payment runs, the lot.
The system admin wasn't very happy with me.

Have to watch out for that one.

In the past I have managed (somehow) to execute every command in the ~/.bash_history file. Every command up to the first "init 6", that is.

[stek]

Back in the day I was working on a remote VMS cluster, needed to reboot it (or part of it - memory letting me down) asked for conversational boot on restart, didn't restart....

Had to drive 160 odd miles to Sellafield and power it on again there. They also had all the keys in a little wall mounted combination locked box which was murder to learn to use, 4 back though 0, to 9, back through 0 the other way. Took me years to master it....