Re: [Hampshire] error competition

Setting no read/write/exec perms on all files and subdirs in a certain folder
on a shared user system...

root@local: chmod -R 000 /

instead of,

chmod -R 000 ./


it took a while to get it all back running!


On Friday 19 August 2011 10:21:06 Edward Beckmann wrote:
> Hi All
>
> As it's friday and I have just caused my longsuffering sysadmin to moan at
> my stupidity yet again , I thought I would offer a challenge for amusing
> typos or human errors. Examples could be:
>
> who can do the most damage to a system with the fewest number of
> keystrokes?
>
> what duff error gives the most spectacular failure?
>
> what error can trigger the longest chain of disasters?
>
> I am sure you get the gist ....
>
>
>
> Bonus marks for anyone brave / foolhardy enough to say "I did ..." as
> opposed to "I knew someone who did ..."