Comments on: The great woops http://blog.amber.org/2008/04/08/the-great-woops/ Thoughts of a minor lunatic Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob McIlree http://blog.amber.org/2008/04/08/the-great-woops/comment-page-1/#comment-51926 Bob McIlree Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:43:56 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2008/04/08/the-great-woops/#comment-51926 LOL...reminds me of the time I did the same thing, on purpose, to an HP-UX box in the early 1990s that was getting retired. In my case, what was more interesting was what happened as /dev was getting blown away...all the peripherals went bonkers as the drivers were removed, then the storage as well. The box convulsed (on screen anyway) as everything got ripped out, then went into firmware mode. Pronounced dead shortly thereafter as the box tried to reboot itself and stayed in firmware mode. That particular episode is still relevant today, as I've seen a few rookie SA's at clients make the same mistake on Linux boxes, and were not as prescient as you were back then in realizing what they'd done, until it was too late. LOL…reminds me of the time I did the same thing, on purpose, to an HP-UX box in the early 1990s that was getting retired. In my case, what was more interesting was what happened as /dev was getting blown away…all the peripherals went bonkers as the drivers were removed, then the storage as well.

The box convulsed (on screen anyway) as everything got ripped out, then went into firmware mode. Pronounced dead shortly thereafter as the box tried to reboot itself and stayed in firmware mode.

That particular episode is still relevant today, as I’ve seen a few rookie SA’s at clients make the same mistake on Linux boxes, and were not as prescient as you were back then in realizing what they’d done, until it was too late.

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