Re: Typed 'Reboot' where ... ?
"Telnetted into various Unix machines, wanted to restart the one in the server room. Whoops - I forgot which machine I was logged into and typed 'reboot' to a machine on the other side of the planet. It did not come up, had to wait until teatime for the guys there to come in and push a button :-("
Who hasn't done this one, I wonder. Happened to me as well: wanted to reboot my SUN workstation, so typed "reboot", then I had "end connection" on that very window ...
Got me quite pale for a moment: I didn't know which system I so rebooted and I was logged to quite a lot !
Then colleagues told me every workstation had frozen: I was logged to the NIS server, which, fortunately came back 30 s after ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
