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- From: eharding@uk.oracle.com (Edward Harding)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.133055.6231@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:30:55 GMT
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- One episode I recall reading about a few years go related to problems
- with the `on' command (apart from the obvious).
-
- It turns out that in order to maintain the current environment,
- running `on' could cause filesystems to be implicitly mounted from
- the remote host onto the /tmp directory on the local host. Usually
- the remote filesystems were unmounted as soon as the `on' command
- finished, but sometimes were left mounted if things got messed up
- somehow.
-
- The real problems arose for those sysadmins who wrote root crontab
- scripts performing particularly enthusiastic recursive removals of
- any junk in /tmp ... resulting in filesystems being deleted apparently
- at random, literally overnight.
-
- As I say this was all some time ago - I may have some of the details
- confused. Anybody interested in the details might want to look in
- the `SunSpots' archives for 1988-89. I think the thread was
- called `The Simplest Little Hack...'
-
- Ed.
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