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Grex Internet Item 69: WHOOPS!
Entered by rcurl on Wed Aug 31 05:27:27 UTC 1994:

Every conference needs a WHOOPS! Item, for describing something done
that was incredibly stupid. Here it is for Internet Whoops!es.

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#1 of 1 by rcurl on Wed Aug 31 05:35:21 1994:

I was asked how to ftp from another host to grex and didn't recall, so
I logged into CAEN and ftp'd a file from grex. It worked fine *except*
it was 2 am and I wasn't thinking straight, so I chose a short text file
to ftp - .login. - *and* I didn't rename it. It of course overwrote my
CAEN .login, which is a very different beast than that on grex. I
realized what I had done immediately, so still being on CAEN, I sent
caenhelp a message, asking to have my .login restored. They did so,
but under a different file name and, fortunately, I was able to at least
login to CAEN with the grex .login, and sort things out. I did discover
that CAEN keeps a complete backup of a user's directory in a readily
ascessible nearby directory, so the user can easily do restores themselves.

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