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I thought I would find these funny and instead they just made me anxious. I mean, they are funny, I guess I just have PTSD from years of Unix administration.
by butterfi 5y ago
I thought I would find these funny and instead they just made me anxious. I mean, they are funny, I guess I just have PTSD from years of Unix administration.
- cf100clunk 5y agoCame here to say the same thing... Unix sysadmin since 1988. I would laugh about these stories but I just cannot without a lump in my throat and a few mea maxima culpas in my own mind. Reminds me of having heard somewhere that Tom Waits, on watching the litany of road show disasters parodied on This Is Spinal Tap, wept rather than laughed. My own worst Unix Admin Horror Story is a variant of the classic ''accidental delete-restore from backup if you've got one'' scenario: in the early '90s I accidentally repopulated all YP tables on a production Sparcstation 10 machine in real time on a busy workday, but the tables had not been kept up to date! It took until the next day to restore from backup and a further day of research and testing to get all the YP tables up to proper state, then write scripts to keep them updated. (This was before Sun was legally forced to rename YP to NIS, btw).