Code Monkey Ramblings

This is absolutely beautiful. Someone should make a YouTube video of it set to some dramatic classical or operatic music like they use in comedies sometimes to highlight extreme screwups.

So here's the summary.

• Company copies a horrible testing script around to many projects
• Company knows that the script SSHs into every server remotely related to the development teams.
• Company is blissfully unaware that, among other things it has a command in it like rm -rf $var1/$var2 (imagine what might happen in a typical scripting language if $var1 and $var2 are undefined (yeah...))
• Company learns the hard way why you never let a script like that run as root on a server which is using SAMBA to connect to most of the company's shared Windows volumes.