Admin Stories
As a sysadmin, we all have good and bad stories to tell. This is a modified list from “The Unofficial Unix Administration Horror Story Summary” by Anatoly Ivasyuk. If you have a story, please share using the comment feature at the bottom of this page.
» Creative uses of rm
» How not to free up space on your drive
» Dealing with /dev files
» Making backups
» Blaming it on the hardware
» Partitioning the drives
» Configuring the system
» Upgrading the system
» All about file permissions
» Machine dependencies
» Miscellaneous stories (a.k.a. ‘oops’)
» What we have learned