Screwing up at work
Someone on the security team signed off that a fake bomb had been recovered at Old Trafford when it hadn't. Cue one controlled explosion and a postponed soccer game. Tell us your tales of workplace screw ups and the consequences of your mistakes.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 8:59)
Someone on the security team signed off that a fake bomb had been recovered at Old Trafford when it hadn't. Cue one controlled explosion and a postponed soccer game. Tell us your tales of workplace screw ups and the consequences of your mistakes.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 8:59)
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I was once trying to clear some space on a unix server
and found buried about 10 levels deep a copy of the entire home directory.
So I typed rm -rf home/*
Well, I meant to. I actually typed rm -rf /home/*
Which deleted the entire home directory and brought the production server down. Oops.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 17:56, 13 replies)
and found buried about 10 levels deep a copy of the entire home directory.
So I typed rm -rf home/*
Well, I meant to. I actually typed rm -rf /home/*
Which deleted the entire home directory and brought the production server down. Oops.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 17:56, 13 replies)
Similar
Working on a PDP-12 or similar I used Purge to delete all files of a particular name, thinking it left the most recent version. It didn't, and of course no one had thought to make backups of the file in question. So I had to reprogram the entire thing. On the upside, I learnt how to program in Pascal. On the downside, I've never had to program in Pascal since.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 19:13, closed)
Working on a PDP-12 or similar I used Purge to delete all files of a particular name, thinking it left the most recent version. It didn't, and of course no one had thought to make backups of the file in question. So I had to reprogram the entire thing. On the upside, I learnt how to program in Pascal. On the downside, I've never had to program in Pascal since.
( , Tue 17 May 2016, 19:13, closed)
Did you know oracle db's really don't like it if you delete their redo logs while the db is up and running?
I do. Now.
( , Wed 18 May 2016, 16:02, closed)
I do. Now.
( , Wed 18 May 2016, 16:02, closed)
In a similar vein
chown -R www-data /
instead of
chown -R www-data .
They're one key apart and it was too long before I noticed. I had to recover the server from an image backup.
( , Thu 19 May 2016, 0:19, closed)
chown -R www-data /
instead of
chown -R www-data .
They're one key apart and it was too long before I noticed. I had to recover the server from an image backup.
( , Thu 19 May 2016, 0:19, closed)
And then all the dinosaurs got out and ate everyone.
You are Nedry AICMFP
( , Thu 19 May 2016, 17:53, closed)
You are Nedry AICMFP
( , Thu 19 May 2016, 17:53, closed)
Installs Engineers ... tsk...
No idea what we was doing on SCO-Unix box. Trying to use Vi, manages to create a text file called '*' at root, as root. Immediately goes - as we watch in horror - rm *
Didn't delete everything - but enough. Fucked a GP whole back office system for a few days....
( , Wed 25 May 2016, 14:58, closed)
No idea what we was doing on SCO-Unix box. Trying to use Vi, manages to create a text file called '*' at root, as root. Immediately goes - as we watch in horror - rm *
Didn't delete everything - but enough. Fucked a GP whole back office system for a few days....
( , Wed 25 May 2016, 14:58, closed)
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