You know you have got it wrong when:-

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

You login at the console and get MTV.

Next

[Pete Randall]

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

[Tom Geudens]

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) ...

[Jeff Schussele]

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

Jeff

[Pete Randall]

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.

[Justo Exposito]

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

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

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

[Trond Haugen]

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

[Patrick Wessel]

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

[Nick Wickens]

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.)

[George_Dodds]

It starts smoking like a barbeque!

[Pete Randall]

Paula,

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

;^)

Pete

[Nick Wickens]

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)

[BFA6]

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

[Dave Wherry]

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.

[Martin Johnson]

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


Marty

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

... 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

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Stefan Schulz]

... 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

[Mark Greene_1]

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

[John Poff]

Your nifty script to create volume groups and filesystems does a pvcreate -f on a disk that happens to be the primary disk for the root volume group.

JP

[Helen French]

.. the console smiles instead of you !

[Craig Rants]

Your asked to install a web server and project lead hands you an IIS CD...

C

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

You ask for more disk space and they give you a locker !!!

[Sanjay_6]

On your HP9000 Workstation, you want to press the audio button in the front to mute the audio and find that you have powered off the workstation.

Sanjay

P.S. : happened to me once with the B132L+ workstation i have on my desk.