On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:40, Eben King wrote:
> I used to leave a script in ~ on the school Solaris boxes called "sl"
> which listed all the files in the caller's ~ as if it were deleting them
> (but didn't acttually do anything). In those machine's
> /etc/profile-supplied $PATH, "." was listed (last, but still). Bad admin,
> no cookie.
Hehe,
Many years ago at the tail end of building a huge all encompassing system for
a customer, I added a little "feature".
When a user issued Exit, and it was on a Saturday, where certain rare dates
would coincide, it would execute this little module. It was only happening
once or twice a year, and only if was running on a Saturday. Which I knew the
boss did frequently.
So many months later I get this call from the panicked owner. He had come in
and done some work, and when he entered the exit command it said:
Please confirm erasing all data (Y/N)?
He of course pressed N. Waited a bit while the computer just sat there...
And then the message came back which said:
All data successfully erased!
Needless to say he was all confused. He never noticed that there was a Delete
all data function, nor could he figure out how he managed to press Y to
erase.
Fortunately it was only messages. Nothing was erased at all. Once he settled
down he laughed and thought it was a good practical joke.
Now what I did not say was that he was also an old friend and we we
occasionally had our families together for weekends and stuff, so he was not
just another customer.
--Steve Szmidt
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