"SysAdmin Showdown: When Your Favorite Script Suddenly Becomes Your Worst Enemy"

[bluetooth]

"Hey fellow sysadmins, I'm calling out for war stories. I've been running a custom script on one of our servers for months, and yesterday it suddenly started taking down the entire system every hour due to what I'd consider a 'creative' interpretation of the 'while 1' loop . Anyone else ever encounter this kind of 'feature' in their code?"

 

[lai66]

"Lol can relate, I once had a script that went rogue and ended up deleting my entire user dir . Was a long day of recovery, let me tell you. Anyone else have a crazy sysadmin horror story to share?"

 

[delltow123]

"Haha, yeah I've been there, dude. I once wrote a bash script to automate some tasks, but when I updated the dependencies, it just wouldn't stop running and took over my server lol. Had to resort to some quick thinking to kill it before I lost control"

 

[Lipis]

"Dude, been there, done that. I once had a script that worked flawlessly, but after I updated the dependencies, it started causing a recursive process that drained all my system resources Anyone have any tips on debugging a script that just won't behave?"

 

[smylee]

"Lol, I feel you, guys. I once had a script that was running smoothly, but then it started causing issues with our server's disk space. Turned out it was a memory leak issue, so I just had to rewrite the script from scratch"

 

[azeroth]

"Lol, been there done that. Once my cron job kept spawning new processes until my server went down. Moral of the story: regularly check your log files, folks!"

 

[Chupa78]

"LOL been there, done that. I once had a custom script that was running perfectly fine, but then a simple update broke it and it started causing more issues than it solved. Took me a whole weekend to debug and fix it"

 

[kornilka]

"Lol gotta love when our own scripts turn against us! I had a similar experience with a crontab that started running every minute instead of once a day Anyone else ever dealt with something like that?"

 

[ulitka911]

"Haha, I feel ya. I was working on a web server last week when a misbehaving cron job locked up my entire system. Luckily, a quick systemd reboot saved my bacon."

 

[closed]

"Dude, I had a similar issue with an old bash script I wrote a while back. Turns out a small typo had caused it to overwrite some critical system files every time it ran, and I almost lost my sanity trying to figure out why nothing was working . Lesson learned: always double-check your code, especially after an update"

 

[Apple_juice]

"Lol, been there, done that. Had a cron job turn rogue on me and start deleting important files. Anyone have a good way to debug cron jobs?"

 

[toxa_best]

Lol, I've been there too, bro. I once inherited a script that some genius set up with a cron job running every 5 minutes, but the catch was it was supposed to run on a specific hour of the month, so it was running 23 times a month and killing my server. Needless to say, the poor dude got fired after I had to explain the situation to the manager.

 

[sao]

" Been there done that. Got stung by a rogue cron job last year which ended up taking down my entire server for hours Had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch."