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


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