Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sbsvax!greim From: greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Message-ID: <627@sbsvax.UUCP> Date: 15 Sep 88 14:31:23 GMT References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <57438@ti-csl.CSNET> <741@etive.ed.ac.uk> <1483@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, West Germany Lines: 29 Once upon a time a guy from another department came into our room and complained : "Our machine is totally broken. It doesn't do anything." Well, we had a look, and indeed the machine did not even boot. I don't remember the exact error message, but it was one which we had not seen previously. We asked him : "What have you done to the system?" We let him describe his last actions. And finally truth was uncovered: he said: "I was looking for some place on the root file system. I discovered two large files and threw them away. But I did not notice anything strange happen after that." "What was their name?" "Aeh, sinix and vmsinix." (variant of (vm)unix for this machine) Well, we were able to help him with a copy of ours. Another time a guy came, who had done the same, that is, thrown away the system. But instead of asking someone he just thought the disk was destroyed, and reformatted it using the installation diskettes! There were also some reports about people who had stripped their system! -mg -- email : greim@sbsvax.informatik.uni-saarland.dbp.de or : ...!uunet!unido!sbsvax!greim voice : +49 681 302 2434 snail : Michael Greim, Universitaet des Saarlandes, FB 10 - Informatik, Bau 36, Im Stadtwald 15, D-6600 Saarbruecken 11, West Germany # include