Something's wrong with me

[omg-teh-funnay.livejournal.com]

So, last time I posted anything fun, I was a team lead/department supervisor for $international_outsourcing_company, assigned to a hardware depot for $hugeass_bank.

I got a new job, started Monday June 4.

I'm back to level one support. I'm actually looking forward to it. $new_employer is an awesome outfit, young and lean and they're doing cool things with technology. Exciting stuff. The last two days have flown by as I immerse myself in command line interfaces and hardware revisions and version notes.

Today, whilst we were running installs on the test cluster, the trainer related the saga of one of his customers

It seems this server admin started a job on one of our boxen and sent it to the background. The job developed personality disorders and she needed to kill it - checked the running process list, found her job and issued a "kill 1" command

1 was the JOB number, not the process ID, which kill uses

Process 1 is init

The variant of BSD we use allows you to kill init, because it trusts you. Unlike Linux, which thinks that killing init is a bad idea.

Our servers use Smart Connect to reconnect to the cluster if something goes wrong

Her screen flickers a bit, and whaddaya know, the jobby job is still running

Kill 1 again

Job still running...

And so on and so forth until she killed EVERY node in her cluster....


Heh. This is what I have to look forward to...

Comments

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

There's only one word I can think of for a fuck-up that large.

Oops.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Operational Oversight, Possibly Serious. =)

Talk about somebody who knows just enough to be dangerous...

[emsporter.livejournal.com]

And this is why some people should not be allowed access to a terminal. EVER.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Egad! I know a gal like that. Waaay over her head, not able to RTFM and actually *use* the information. Relies on everyone else to either walk her through every time, or to do it for her just to get her out of their hair.