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Agreed. They also seemed to acknowledge that in the post, as they mentioned improving the tool to not allow such destructive options.
by notheguyouthink 10y ago
Agreed. They also seemed to acknowledge that in the post, as they mentioned improving the tool to not allow such destructive options.
- joezydeco 10y agoYou mean like range checking the input parameters to the command? =) SHUT DOWN S3? ARE YOU SURE? (y/N) :
- unit91 10y agoMore like: SHUT DOWN S3? ARE YOU SURE? ("I'm absolutely positive."/n) :
- fixermark 10y agoWere it so easy. Likely more like "Shut down 73 servers? Are you sure? (y/N)": "Seventy-three? Wow, I hadn't realized our system grew that much. Probably a new backend dependency got added that I'm not familiar with yet; I'll look into it later." (Y)
- TheDauthi 10y agoEvery sysadmin at my previous job (a Fortune 500) would stop the moment that number is off the expected by a few machines, just long enough to verify it's correct. That may be due to having made a mistake like this once. I know that's true in several other large shops, as well. Source: I'm was the one the one they would call for our team... usually at 4:00 AM because one of our team members (which was also frequently me) didn't document something correctly.
- flamedoge 10y agoToo easy. should make u run NP-hard solver to confirm.