ARGGHH!!

[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....

[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.

[vetran]

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

you calling MS random?

[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.

[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.

[stek]

Might be wise changing the alias for rm to be interactive so at least it would have prompted you

-f overrides the prompt though....

[FiveTimes]

Might be wise changing the alias for rm to be interactive so at least it would have prompted you

[RSoles]

got the source and dest wrong way round,

Ah yes, the classic dd fail.

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

He said 'Well I know you told me not to do it, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway'.

-Halcion days of mag tape and getting on a turboprop....

[stek]

Once did this on a Solaris box;

tar -cvf /export/home /backups/homes.tar

i.e. got the source and dest wrong way round, wiped everyone's home directory and ended up with an empty tar file. No tape backups, but I was young and carefree and had interesting hair and blamed it on somebody else.

Even now though, I stop and pause for quiet introspection when I use tar - like this;

tar............

sleep 60

./muse.sh

./pootimer.sh

echo Well Done stek, you now have 0.987% of the Maserati QP IV

 cvf filename.tar /export/home

[vetran]

did an rm -rf at in the root once on an established system (been in a couple of years and had been under another engineer, my first time visiting), so I turned round and said so where is your backup I can rebuild to that it may take a while but we can get to this morning.

backup - oh that has never run, we were hoping you could fix that.....

cue pink face...

[mudskipper]

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.

[stek]

Have you checked the Recycle Bin?

I've got a whole Wall's Viennetta in the fridge, not Mint, I don't like the Mint ones. I'm checking that instead....

On top of that I'm on call this week, and thought it was next week, called twice last night and chewed off the firstliner screaming 'I'M NOT ON CALL!!!'. Oops....

[TheFaQQer]

Have you checked the Recycle Bin?

[DannyF1966]

Still, could have been worse! Might have been the next directory up instead

[stek]

Instead of typing;

ls -l outputs/*

I esc-K, K'd to what I thought was the above previously typed command but pressed enter on;

rm -rf /outputs/*

instead....

Oh well, start again.....