Annoyed BSAFH

So,

I am rather annoyed. Let's ignore the fact that someone blew away a server by moving stuff around without thinking about it. This happens, and you know its part of the game we are in. Of course the real sin was listening to a user and what they told them to do, as opposed to thinking about it and interpreting it and seeing what they wanted and what the correct way of doing it was, as opposed to just following instructions. That's what makes a sysadmin as opposed to an operator.

These things happen, and you laugh and joke about it and fix it. I've rebuilt the server and am having issues getting it to see external storage, but again, thats part of the business. What HAS annoyed me though is that even though this server is recorded as being down and being worked on... they've reinstalled the application. OK.. first time... over zealous mistake. I rebuilt it again to retest something and came in this morning to find they've done it AGAIN! Worse than that, our 2nd line team even logged in and made them directories to do it in, installed a compiler on the box just after I had rebuilt it! This is so very annoying and now i've locked them out the box completely. What bugs me most is even if this were a "live" box and ready to have stuff deployed on it, they shouldn't just be creating directories like this anyway and letting users put stuff in the OS's filesytems!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

rm -rf /users/directory/take/that/you/son/of/a