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Not a sysadmin horror story, but I remember as an undergrad in the late 80s / early 90s what happened to me when i left my terminal unattended. Every time I
by drewg123 5y ago
Not a sysadmin horror story, but I remember as an undergrad in the late 80s / early 90s what happened to me when i left my terminal unattended. Every time I ran my project via "a.out", I would see "Segmentation fault: Core dumped" and there would be a zero-length core file created in the directory.
Turns out a helpful soul had aliased "a.out" to 'echo "segmentation fault: core dumped"; touch core"
That made me learn at an early age to never have "." in my path, and to always execute things in the CWD as ./a.out (among other things).
- U8dcN7vx 5y ago./a.out() { echo surprise; }