See and I did a side job yesterday... I only fixed one machine in three hours and pocketed $300. BTW Tekie you would have loved this one! It was a linux server and someone decided to run the following commands, AS ROOT, then reboot.
chmod -R 700 /etc
chmod -R 600 /var
chmod -R 600 /opt
LOL where do people come up with these good ideas!?
wow, just wow, wow
thats why stupid people shouldn't use root
I'm currently trying to break the habit slackware has gotten me into of running root, I still normally have a shell open, but not as bad.
Still my fav "housecall" was installing a new hdd in a compaq, and running the included restore CD's (previous drive died.) Made like $60 for about half an hour of real work (sat and leeched neighbors wifi on my laptop while it installed and I fed it discs)
edit: who has a linux server in their house, and knows how to do that and NOT know that will seriously break things, even though I can't talk, back in the redhat days I did something like this (as root) while trying to add a seccond hdd "mkfs /dev/hda" rebooted, and wondered why I got massive error messages.