I hate
lusers!. I hate having a luser as a sysadm under my supervision at the office. And what I hate most is that this particular person is a
luser with initiative.
I have just spend 1 hr in his machine, debugging a strange behavior, half the deamons died shortly after starting them. Weird. Several problems showed up with his setup, including a missing localhost entry in his /etc/hosts.
All the bad deamons were having permission denied
errors while trying to open Unix ports. He did a "chmod 770 /tmp". I'm almost sure that he thinked something like "Oh!, the security on my machine is too lax.". Why, oh why didn't I think of that first?!!??. "But I did that yesterday" he said justifying his stupidity, "that can't be the problem, because the machine worked fine all this time since the change".
Oh!, how would I love to get rid of him, but sadly that power is not under my hat... yet... someday... someday I'll be able to get my hands on him. BUUUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!.