I've done my share of bone-headed moves too. Most commonly, they've been cut-and-paste errors between the wrong windows, accidentally triggering actions on the wrong server. I've accidentally rebooted a server or two in the past as well. I haven't wiped out whole SAN volumes, but I have been present when it happened and it isn't a good feeling, even vicariously.
Deleting the account of a former sysadmin who instead of using 'su', set all of his logins to UID 0. Didn't catch the UID 0 part and let the script delete his files - kernel panic trying to delete /bin/sh. Ooooooops.
I'd have made the same error... it wouldn't have occurred to me to check as any admin who sets his default uid to 0 deserves to be flogged (IMHO, of course).
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Date: 2007-03-20 07:19 pm (UTC)My bonehead event.
Date: 2007-03-20 10:34 pm (UTC)Re: My bonehead event.
Date: 2007-03-21 12:41 pm (UTC)