Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-26 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08: >> drop database Live_database; >> >> Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P > > You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of "fortune bofh-excuses" and > most users woul

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: >> Which brings me to another fun question.  What's your worst >> administration mistake and how did you recover? > > My worst administration mistake w

Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > jacques wrote: >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point.  I know I have! Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately and cancelled. Most of the