Dohh.......

[Ray Salter]

True - I know for it was I.....!!

Whilst working near a live 32-Way, 32 Gb V-Class server that had its right hand cover off....

Thinks me...."Thats a stupid place to place a power switch"......

Whilst lifting the tile next to the box a few minutes later...

Do I need to carry on

? 1500 users, 5 BIG apps etc etc......

[David Lodge]

*Ouch* but haven't we all been in a similar position, I remember shutting down a development server for power off. Once I'd shut the machine down I thought as that was the only machine in the cabinet I'd power off the cabinet too...

Little did I know that the live server in the next door cabinet was using power from the development cabinet!

[Tim D Fulford]

Well, at leat you didn't do something like rm -r * & find out your in / not /tmp/junk!!

Tim

[Rita C Workman]

..you must truly be the humblest of men. I commend you. For it takes a mighty man to admit to his 'dohs'....

I on the other hand am a woman....and have no intention of admitting to anyone about the time I brought a certain state government agency's certain large imaging system with hundreds of employees to a grinding halt.....nope I shall never admit that in public. Nope....

Ah life...everyday a new adventure..

Rita

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I hear ya Tim,
That happened to me more than once..

Golden rule of sysadmin...
make sure you can blame someone else!

Later,
Bill

[John Bolene]

Having the keys to the kingdom on the mainframe, I was investigating certain values in memory while working on a piece of UNISYS operating system enhancement code. I did a memory write command instead of a read. Yes, you can do that on some mainframe op systems.

What, no response, dang it.

Call operators, tell them to boot the machine, as I did an oops.

Worldwide users were none too pleased.

I was a bit more careful after that.


BTW, that was 15 years ago and the mainframe op sys code enhancement is still running.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Dohh Dohh Dohh Dahh Dahh Dahh

No problem. The box was running minutes later...

Dohh Dohh Dohh Dahh Dahh Dahh...

[Darrell Allen]

Do ya think anyone noticed?

Don't we wish! I feel your pain. Been in similar position. Mistakes / accidents are part of being human. Now if the boss's boss's boss, et al can just remember that...

Number one rule: If you think you can hide it, think again.

Darrell

[Wodisch]

Hello Brian,

thanks for sharing this!
We could even try to make that a long-running thread...
All of us would NOT admit what we have done :-)

Do you remember the "ulimit 0" bug many, many years back? Well, I was working on a Cray II at that time, and we were about to test wether the Cray II was vulnerable to it - and I *thought* we had another terminal logged in as "root" and we had a copy of "/etc/passwd". To make the long story a short one: the Cray II *was* vulnerable - and nobody could login anymore. Pity we did the login and copy on the wrong machine :-(
For the lawyers: I was NOT there, I have NOT done anything, I have NOT even heard about it!

Smiling,
Wodisch

[Patrick Wallek]

Hmmmm......I think we've all been there.

Shortly after I started in my current position I was working on my sun workstation installing patches. I figured I'd go ahead and reboot it. I did the reboot command, but nothing happened on my workstation. OOPS!!!! CDE is a wonderful thing, but you gotta make sure you're on the right machine when you issue a reboot. I rebooted our mail / NIS / application server.


For anyone here that knows MPE (specifically the older MPE/V)

I used to work at a software company and our product had a file called CATALOG in its own PRODUCT.SYS area. This file controlled licensing. I was working and thought I was in PRODUCT.SYS, but was actually in PUB.SYS and removed the CATALOG file. For those that don't know MPE/V, that is a very important file. I went to reboot the system the next day and it wouldn't come up. Said it couldn't find the CATALOG.PUB.SYS file. OOPS!!!!! I wound up restoring the system........ (from 1600BPI reel tapes).

[paul courry]

I remember a secretary who just about became Kentucky Fried Chicken..........

She had removed the covers from a series 68 HP3000 "to get better air flow" and she walked into the cramped room and went to the far side.

I turned white and told her to gather up her skirts and walk VERY carefully to me.

At this point I pointed out her silk skirt, the bus bar that was carrying 480 volts inside the machine and the fact that her twitchy swaying from side-to-side walk nearly bought her a Darwin Award.

Me? I've never made a mistake in my life.

[Sachin Patel]

Dohhh,
I did it what?
cd /
chmod -R 777

Well I didn't do it, programmer told me to do it.

Once upon a time I was working on win3.1 some account comp. and I did what?
del . in to /data directory. honest mistake.
What I did after that. Call my friend gets all invoices and sit on computer for another 24 hour. Other data was lost due to Hardware problem.

Sachin

[John Ferrara]

That's not too bad. Try shutting off a RTO (real time optimization) server and throwing a govt. grade jet fuel production unit off spec and ruining a half million barrels of the good stuff! It wasn't me........