[rescue] Shooting yourself in the foot....

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, George Adkins wrote:

>> Yeah, I was just slightly chuckling until I hit that one. It made me
>> laugh out loud! It's that last ls and empty response that reminds me of
>> the sinking feeling that produces...
>
>Yeah, that Lump in your throat, headache coming on, little black cloud
>forming over your head sensation as you think "awww, no way!  I can't believe
>I just did that..."

I once managed to blow away about 75 users' mailboxes under Solaris
trying to move it to a new disk (getting POP3 mail off the swap
disk is good).  Two people thanked me, and I got zero bitching.
I did have a backup from the night before, but still 8 hours of
mail gone...and no one complained.

=Nadine=