[rescue] Shooting yourself in the foot....

Big Endian biggie at 3geeks.org
Thu Aug 8 13:55:14 CDT 2002


>On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, George Adkins wrote:
>
>>>  Yeah, I was just slightly chuckling until I hit that one. It made me
>>>  laugh out loud! It's that last ls and empty response that reminds me of
>>>  the sinking feeling that produces...
>>
>>Yeah, that Lump in your throat, headache coming on, little black cloud
>>forming over your head sensation as you think "awww, no way!  I can't believe
>>I just did that..."
>
>I once managed to blow away about 75 users' mailboxes under Solaris
>trying to move it to a new disk (getting POP3 mail off the swap
>disk is good).  Two people thanked me, and I got zero bitching.
>I did have a backup from the night before, but still 8 hours of
>mail gone...and no one complained.

you are one lucky admin.  Can I have your Lusers?

daniel
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