From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ed69abfd for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8557B9B92B; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:43:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D7A9B83C; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:42:48 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; secure) header.d=hamartun.priv.no header.i=@hamartun.priv.no header.b="lJZ/J67i"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4AE2B9B853; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:42:17 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 565 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:42:10 AEST Received: from barsoom.hamartun.priv.no (barsoom.hamartun.priv.no [193.71.27.8]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A25D39B8E3 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:42:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from thuvia.hamartun.priv.no (thuvia.hamartun.priv.no [193.71.27.7]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by barsoom.hamartun.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45C9B1C7148; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Authentication-Results: barsoom.hamartun.priv.no; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=193.71.27.7 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=hamartun.priv.no; s=barsoom; t=1571938361; cv=none; b=Fp2JijMJjjxM9AU0zfM+YHAXmAOvR2+yAJKwmuAbl/hwnd6UC+cuiGdOScajSfaxjSdZfAjWmvB0snlR3ZihD1PHLLtaI7SG49ansq7boi4iL6QmQ0ECzyAypgjoUOKdvIA6L8nhbkalC5nTD8llNV3ln5F+8ru67Ip4qer+7h4= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=hamartun.priv.no; s=barsoom; t=1571938361; c=relaxed/simple; bh=pYe6atnY1rQw1/m53hcxmbMmqtxJmATX/6onX/LNXU0=; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date: In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=k98L76Kamr/CqQwxfd7XdX/QGboEnKXgyZR8fGNQhPYsoPqbgmwxkRUNiulXmyI67MiKqIPEFxsUepSJnZDCJyN75Y4gJ5+Z7XRHIxSlawH1a/Q1yUCAx5VuGW3nRPrLl1PWcHTjpzhnz0bUJPg/HCQQPbjRh1Sx7ayLe0/RXlo= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; barsoom.hamartun.priv.no DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=hamartun.priv.no; s=barsoom; t=1571938361; bh=pYe6atnY1rQw1/m53hcxmbMmqtxJmATX/6onX/LNXU0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=lJZ/J67iv2WkREaunMRUVXzKlz/Mufu99GjsYBBg4i6sRZaZ/7MBzD/FOGe+7ev+0 Fhlz2mVH9ZYcsXVAla1IYv5P6WXF7znyK2NvAVlQszJSn/5iQcdxWabALuJ9yl5uCz Hqw9CT6dt7Wycn9U/JVeOdvzuOnkfkEi1HPEfOn4= Received: by thuvia.hamartun.priv.no (Postfix, from userid 501) id 08D814DECC; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:32:38 +0200 (CEST) To: Will Senn References: <20191010205546.GA29154@minnie.tuhs.org> <31872e63-ff9a-e2d5-0642-d23ec58817bd@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:32:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <31872e63-ff9a-e2d5-0642-d23ec58817bd@gmail.com> (Will Senn's message of "Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:45:06 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS Reply-To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo Cc: TUHS@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Will Senn writes: > Try that on linux... no, don't :) We accidentally totally hosed a Linux system running MySQL a dozen or so years back. Redhat, and pretty much "rpm -qa | xargs rpm -e". Totally destroyed the ability to do anything at all on that box, of course, even using the logged-in shell that caused the damage. We set up a new host, replicated the running database across, and retired the original. No down time, no data loss. :) -tih -- Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay