Unix Admin. Horror Story Summary, version 1.0 (old)

I was called in recently to fix a system to which someone had done `chown -R 777 *` from `/`.

So everything was owned by a nonexistent user. It was interesting to fix. Especially since someone had been mucking around trying to fix it from the open root prompt after the damage was done.

(mount filesystem from live cd, copy ownership from livecd filesystem to the disk, reboot)

Not really a horror story as a sysasdmin, but I figured that completely removing Python and all of its dependencies might be a good way to fix some conflicts I was having with a few programs.

Needless to say, results were disappointing.

I know this is old, but the lessons are still current, and it still made me laugh out loud in a few places.

Is there a more recent version? I looked but couldn't find one. I'm having one of those sorts of days ...

I saw some code posted on a security mailing list and compiled and ran it in a virtual machine to see what it did. Except I didn't and ran it on the host. It rm -rf'd my home.

Not Unix but my boss tried to add a new drive to our company/dev server raid array this evening and wiped everything out. Hopefully the backup restore works tomorrow :-\

We've all been there once or twice :) . Nice Friday Read. Thx