Top 10 Things You Don't Want To Hear Your System Administrator Say


10Yes, I chowned all files belonging to [lusername] to bin.bin. Is this a problem?
9Nobody was using that file /vmunix, right?
8What's this pound sign on my terminal mean?
7Is there a version of VMS for Sparc?
6Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory off of /.
5dd if=/dev/null of=/etc/pwd.db
4Gee, I hope there was nothing important in /sbin...
3Hey, we got TECO and SED. What the hell else do you want?
2
% su
Password:
foobar syslogd: su luser to root 06/30/98 13:34:10
# kill -9 `ps -augx | awk '{print $2}'`
1I wish they made SMIT for this system....

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