Sam on HP-UX. Ugh

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Thu Feb 8 20:13:06 2001

> Bill Pechter wrote:
>
> > I know Sam was in HP-UX8... I think it may have even been in 7.x.
>
> SAM on 8 is evil! Every time I run it, and do anything relating to
> filesystems, it locks the entire box. Run screaming!
>
> --
>
>
> Tim Harrison
> Network Engineer
> harrison_at_timharrison.com
> http://www.networklevel.com/
>

You ain't kidding... my wife did a sam delete user for about
a dozen users and it ran them in parallel till it locked the machine up
with too many find . -user xxx -print | xarg rm processes and blew out
the machine.

Bad software <thwack>. Bad. Very bad.
Bad programmer <thwack>. Bad. Very bad.

Boy was AIX's SMIT a ton better at the same time.
The running guy was a bit much, though.

--Bill
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Received on Thu Feb 08 2001 - 20:13:06 GMT

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