Linux huge advantage: It gives you huge flexiblity and very sharp knifes. Linux drawback: Well, see above. It takes getting used to if. As I keep joking - nuk

Linux huge advantage: It gives you huge flexiblity and very sharp knifes. Linux drawback: Well, see above. It takes getting used to if. As I keep joking - nuking your first production system is a bit of a rite of passage as a linux admin. My first was a "mv $WORKSPACE/* $WORKSPACE/bin". I also once caused a ridiculous mess by screwing up NTP. It doesn't count 100% imo, but one of our juniors recently wanted to reset a DB on a newly installed system and did a "rm -rf /var /lib/foobar" to delete the system state. Another pretty green colleague wanted to cleanup a bunch of db dumps and ran "rm -rf /var/lib/barqux/*". It certainly removed the database dumps, and the database too. Both are now educated in the arts of either `find -delete`, `xargs -p`, as well as generating scripts full of individual `rm` or other calls for review. Some simple "for f in bla*; do echo 'mv $f ${f##blub#blob}' >> script; done" is a powerful technique. And I don't think they will forget this anytime soon, without anyone getting angry or anything. I'm mostly this chill about it because we have enough redundancy, automation and backups to let them run free and wild like this so they can learn quickly. Oh and yeah, they also learned how to reinit and/or rebuild database nodes, hah.