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The Lounge War Stories Prize of being an Admin Post 302651131 by bakunin on Tuesday 5th of June 2012 04:05:40 AM
Old 06-05-2012
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Originally Posted by hedkandi
..dont get me started on the 1st level support guy whom renamed a system to a single numeric value of "2" His excuse was that he wasn't aware what uname -S does in UNIX..last I checked he's still there
Well, in my last project i had such a colleague too: Once, the storage guy (also an AIX expert) wanted to do some performance tests. He created an empty LUN, imported it as hdisk device and wrote to this device directly using dd. His point was to not let the file system drivers mess up his measurement.

So far, so logical and absolutely correct. Now, enter the idiot: he saw what the storage guy did and us discussing the results. Three days later a productive system broke with some strange errors and was unable to boot again. The disks in the rootvg were damaged to an extent that even the PVID and the LVCB (partition information) were missing. It transpired, that he did "performance tests" too. But because he didn't really understand what the storage guy was doing, he didn't get himself a new and empty disk for that, but used the system disk to overwrite the first physical GB with hexadecimal zeros. Well, the disk was mirrored and the system would have survived that - but doing thorough work he did it on the second system disk too. Guess what happens, when both copies of a mirrored disk are destroyed.

We would have been able to restore the system pretty quickly using an mksysb from our central NIM server - unfortunately he had used not only the production system but this very system, our centralized software repository for all the AIX systems - for his "performance tests" too (along with a couple of other systems, but we found that out later). Most systems boot only very slowly from nulled out boot disks....

This guy is there in in systems administration for more then ten years now and this was not even the first time he did something this idiotic. Go figure.

bakunin
 

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WWW::Facebook::API::Admin(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    WWW::Facebook::API::Admin(3pm)

NAME
WWW::Facebook::API::Admin - Facebook Admin SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Facebook::API; DESCRIPTION
Methods for accessing Admin functions with WWW::Facebook::API SUBROUTINES
/METHODS base Returns the WWW::Facebook::API base object. new Constructor. get_allocation( %params ) The Admin.getAllocation method of the Facebook API. $allocation = $client->Admin->get_allocation( integration_point_name => 'notifications_per_day', ); get_metrics( %params ) The Admin.getMetrics method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->get_metrics( start_time => 1222285298, end_time => 1222300000, period => 86400, metrics => '["active_users", "canvas_page_views"]' ); get_app_properties( %params ) The Admin.getAppProperties method of the Facebook API. $properties = $client->Admin->get_app_properties( properties => '["application_name","callback_url"]' ); set_app_properties( %params ) The Admin.setAppProperties method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->set_app_properties( properties => encode_json { application_name => 'testapp', callback_url => 'http://example.com/testapp/' } ); get_restriction_info( %params ) The Admin.getRestrictionInfo method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->get_restriction_info(); set_restriction_info( %params ) The Admin.setRestrictionInfo method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->set_restriction_info( encode_json { age => '21+', location => 'us' } ); ban_users( %params ) The Admin.banUsers method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->ban_users( uids => [@uids] ); ==item unban_users( %params ) The Admin.unbanUsers method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->unban_users( uids => [@uids] ); get_banned_users( %params ) The Admin.getBannedUsers method of the Facebook API. $result = $client->Admin->getBannedUsers(); DIAGNOSTICS
None. CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
WWW::Facebook::API::Admin requires no configuration files or environment variables. DEPENDENCIES
See WWW::Facebook::API INCOMPATIBILITIES
None reported. BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported. Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-www-facebook-api@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. AUTHORS
David Romano "<unobe@cpan.org>" Thomas Burke "<tburke@cpan.org>" LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2008-2010, David Romano "<unobe@cpan.org>". All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE AS PERMITTED BY THE ABOVE LICENSE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. perl v5.10.1 2010-03-13 WWW::Facebook::API::Admin(3pm)
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