Re: Lost mail on security-basics today

[Byron Copeland <nodialtone () comcast net>]

Yeah I agree, don't be too hash.  I've made mistakes in the past myself,
like being ssh'd into a firewall someplace and not paying attention and
thinking I was on my own box after working with multiple servers in
multiple windows and issue a "shutdown -h now" command in that window. 
Doh!

-b

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 06:58, Allen wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2004 15:43, Kelly Martin wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > One of our mail admins made a big mistake today and we lost all the mail
> > on one of the outgoing SecurityFocus mail servers... all of our 31 mailing
> > lists were affected including this one.
>
> Everyone makes mistakes
>
> > Sincere apologies, but these things happen.
> > And to Unix administrators everywhere, please remember that 'sudo' is your
> > friend, education is key, and that playing around with production machines
> > as 'root' is a very bad way to learn from your mistakes.
>
> LOL, everyone who has ever had root access to a UNIX machine has done 
> something like this once at least. I know I have, and I just hope the person 
> who did this wasn't fired, or punished harshly. It's not like you have to pay 
> to sign up so I don't see a big deal with it, mistakes happen, and everyone 
> has made them. :)
>
> > Best regards,
> > Moderator
> >
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