At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.
Actual escalation I got:
contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me
me: show me what you are doing.
contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc
another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.
After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.
Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…
It’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*
At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.
Actual escalation I got:
contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me
me: show me what you are doing.
contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc
another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.
After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.
I’ve heard that before. “No. I won’t close the circuit breaker while you’re holding the wires.” “Boss!..”
Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /" instead of "./”.
After I realized that it was taking too long, i realized my error.
Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system. I took out 2.5 machines before I killed it.
I did this in a cleanup script in a make file with an undefined path that turned the pointed dir to root after a hardware change
thank rngesus I was in a user account with limited privileges
Anyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
I still do. With NFS4 even more than ever. Won’t let it go unless for a SAN.
much?
Like I said, olden days.
Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…