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Author Topic: NEW quickest way to have a bad day as the BOFH  (Read 2203 times)

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Offline opiesilver

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NEW quickest way to have a bad day as the BOFH
« on: March 29, 2008, 12:52:33 PM »
So my padawan learners, what happens when you type "ukink / var/adm/crash" instead of "ulink /var/adm/crash"?  Any clues? 

Your day goes to %$#@*& is what happens.  The you have to either boot off a rescue CD and relink everything by hand (NEAR IMPOSSIBLE) or reload the OS from scratch.  How would Master Opie know this?  He just freaking did it again.  Second time in 15 years.

So todays lesson is........Don't unlink root!!!!
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Re: NEW quickest way to have a bad day as the BOFH
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 11:10:21 PM »
How did the miss-spell do that?  I didn't think it was a command. ulink sure, but not ukink.
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Re: NEW quickest way to have a bad day as the BOFH
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 02:31:49 PM »
That would be yet another typo from the day from hell. :swear:
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Re: NEW quickest way to have a bad day as the BOFH
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 08:33:39 PM »
Ah, I get it. I missed that there was a space in the typo'd command line.  OOPS!
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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.