Reply to post: Re: Sorry Jeff...

Mars helicopter mission (which Apache says is powered byLog4j) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record

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Re: Sorry Jeff...

A colleague wrote a diagnostic for a condition on the live mainframe. He knew that it would occasionally print a false error message on the operator's console if it hit a "one in a million" limit condition in his logic.

He forgot that his code was being obeyed so often that "one in a million" happened every few minutes - to great annoyance of the operators.

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