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Unix Horror Stories - venam - 12-02-2017
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Horror Stories
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10 unix horror stories to amuse you.
References:
Our thread about the worst moments: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882
More and more horrors...
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt
http://www.yak.net/carmen/unix_horror.html
http://www.lug.wsu.edu/node/414
http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/90719-unix-horror-story-script-question.html
http://unixhorrorstories.blogspot.com/2011/08/unix-horror-stories-good-thing-about.html
If you want to contribute check this thread.
Music:
Modern Stylings: Methods of the Cigar Box Guitar
by Municipal Airport
Amplification and Synthesizer
https://municipalairport.bandcamp.com/album/modern-stylings-methods-of-the-cigar-box-guitar
RE: Unix Horror Stories - venam - 13-02-2017
Let's expand this topic.
I'd love to hear horror stories that are unrelated to data loss.
I'm also really interested in tips to avoid making cretinous mistakes.
You can also bump that other thread about your "worst" moment: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882
RE: Unix Horror Stories - tejr - 15-02-2017
http://www.softpanorama.org/Admin/Horror_stories/pure_stupidity.shtml
EDIT: Oh, wait, that's just a few selections from horror.txt already linked in venam's post, nm
RE: Unix Horror Stories - dcli - 15-04-2020
There's a great article here about unix horror stories: gopher://cyber.dabamos.de/0/text/unix_horror_stories.txt
For web users: https://pastebin.com/raw/yivVHT9H
RE: Unix Horror Stories - b4dtR1p - 17-07-2020
ty for ur podcast bro!
lovely
RE: Unix Horror Stories - jkl - 23-07-2025
(13-02-2017, 03:26 AM)venam Wrote: I'm also really interested in tips to avoid making cretinous mistakes.
When a system upgrade is carried out under illumos, a new boot environment is automatically created, which is active after the reboot. Until this reboot, which should therefore not be delayed for months, the old services and data remain active and are not synchronised with the new versions.
Not even any PostgreSQL databases.
Please do NOT ask why I am writing this now.
RE: Unix Horror Stories - venam - 02-08-2025
(23-07-2025, 09:52 AM)jkl Wrote: are not synchronised with the new versionsThe person who designed this forgot to put a gigantic warning after the upgrade is over. "Restart or your data is in great perils".
RE: Unix Horror Stories - jkl - 03-08-2025
I would probably need a gigantic red warning "restart NOW or you WILL regret losing your databases".