8 Feb
2001
8 Feb
'01
12:13 p.m.
Bill Pechter wrote:
You ain't kidding... my wife did a sam delete user for about
a dozen users and it ran them in parallel till it locked the machine up
with too many find . -user xxx -print | xarg rm processes and blew out
the machine.
Bad software <thwack>. Bad. Very bad.
Bad programmer <thwack>. Bad. Very bad.
Boy was AIX's SMIT a ton better at the same time.
The running guy was a bit much, though.
--Bill
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bpechter(a)monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10
Brainbench MVP | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2
Unix Sys.Admin. | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour"
I know Sam was in HP-UX8... I think it may have
even been in 7.x.
SAM on 8 is evil! Every time I run it, and do anything relating to
filesystems, it locks the entire box. Run screaming!
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Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison(a)timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/