topic Re: You know you have got it wrong when:- in Operating System - HP-UX

You know you have got it wrong when:-

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:23:56 GMT

You login at the console and get MTV.

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Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Pete Randall — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:30:25 GMT

You re-boot your workstation and the screen comes up blue with wispy clouds.

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Tom Geudens — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:35:11 GMT

You turn the key of the K-server above the console where you did the shutdown and see the logging on the next console stop (this really happened to me) ...

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:37:01 GMT

Your boot display shows a Phoenix BIOS trademark with a 1980s era copyright date.

Jeff

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Pete Randall — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:38:48 GMT

Along a similar line, Tom:

You re-boot your workstation only to discover the window you were working in was logged into the production server.

And, yes, it really happened - to me.

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Justo Exposito — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:40:34 GMT

You say bye at 19:00 PM, and 10 minutes later you hear a ring in your cellular...

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:43:02 GMT

Hi Pete

I have done the same - logged in on two session one to live one to test.

Had to reboot Test server.

shutdown -r now -

I pressed return

Went for coffee to find out that I have done it on Live server.

Paula

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Trond Haugen — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:43:45 GMT

After having run shutdown on the server you push the powerbutton and realize it's the wrong box before releasing it and you are alone in the dataroom.....

I have just heard about it.

Trond

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Patrick Wessel — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:45:45 GMT

???you need a mouse to operate your Computer.

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Nick Wickens — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:47:17 GMT

Your finger is .005mm from the enter key and the force of momentum is just too great.

(Sometimes you can hear a long drawn out Nooooooooooo! in the back of your mind.)

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

George_Dodds — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:48:37 GMT

It starts smoking like a barbeque!

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Pete Randall — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:50:18 GMT

Paula,

It was right after that that I changed the root prompt to include hostname. It's never happened again (knock on wood).

;^)

Pete

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Nick Wickens — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:55:22 GMT

Or .. (And this is a true story from my MVS/XP days but not by me but a tape monkey).

You press the big red button by the Computer room door and the lift does'nt come ??????

Or ... You have a trolley race around the computer room and find out that the glass doors on the tape units are not toughend.

Or ... You pick up the tray of punch cards you just dropped and now they won't load (Hey showing my age now)

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

BFA6 — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:08:29 GMT

You hit the power button on the HASS unit & realise they are attached to a server you haven't shutdown yet (and can't shutdown for another 15 minutes as it's the DNS server !)

Hilary

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Dave Wherry — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:12:08 GMT

As for being in the wrong window and shutting down the wrong server, yes, I've done it too. This week in fact.
One place I worked at the CIO did it so we considered that our "Get Out of Jail Free" card. We would all be allowed at least one goof up.

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Martin Johnson — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:15:02 GMT

Type in "shutdown -h -y now" then realize you are in a telnet session to a production system running critical apps.

Marty

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:20:30 GMT

... it was all quiet one night and you realised the next morning that there was a gigantic power failure in the machine room affecting all the servers and that the reason you weren't paged is because your paging server is in the same machine room and it isn't hooked to any UPS.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:33:16 GMT

You enter the computer room on moday morning, switch on the A500 and the display shows "Starting Windows/ME"

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Stefan Schulz — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:57:14 GMT

... you accidently pull the plug of your UPS and recognize that you didn't check the functionality of the batteries. (Yes, happend to me)

Regards Stefan

Re: You know you have got it wrong when:-

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:05:56 GMT

you are holding the just remove network cable in your hand, and are wondering how in the world the system is still on the network?

mark