Comments on: sometimes i really truly hate ITOps

By: Jacob Secret

Jacob Secret — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:19:49 +0000

Yea, i strongly reccomend you check out Subversion (or svn for short) its a simple unix command that stores copies of your scripts.

It also allows you to retrieve older versions of the scripts if you accidentally screw it up (:

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:13:24 +0000

Surely there’s some code repository you could check your scripts into so it doesn’t matter if they disappear from your homedir?

By: Juno888

Juno888 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:34:30 +0000

My parents are separate computer with me coz of my games…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:39:06 +0000

This is why I only use my work computer for games.

By: Stephen Lau

Stephen Lau — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:02:17 +0000

i doubt the jurassic-slaves will tell us exactly WHOSE cron job it was. i don't think it executed with any RBAC/sudo privs. it looks like it was taking out files/directories which were g+w, which is unfortunately, a lot of files/directories.

once i get my home directory restored, i intend on removing all group writable privs.

By: Geoff Arnold

Geoff Arnold — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:55:14 +0000

"somebody's rogue cron job". WHOSE rogue cron job, and with what RBAC profile?

People are always claiming that RBAC is better than sudo because you get fine-grained control. Well, yes - but you lose fine-grained logging. At least with sudo you have to explicitly code the fact that you're doing something dangerous; with RBAC there's always the temptation to run with pfksh as your default shell....