Who, Me?: Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI
brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as"Wilma" who told us that while at university she volunteered with a group working on the student association's website.
"To my horror I realized I was in the root directory of the web server – /var/www –rather than the directory holding the files for the site," she told Who, Me? "I had just deleted all websites on the student association's webserver. ""The server was quickly restored from backups by someone competent and I was not allowed to work on the website anymore," she told Who, Me? I was a part-time DBA.
After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA"After that I developed the habit of double checking what I'm about to do on the Linux command line before pressing Enter," Wilma wrote.
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