Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 377
> I'm gonna have to go against the chorus and lay the blame at your feet, honestly.
That pretty much HAS been the chorus.
And I never said I wasn't (at least) partially to blame - I definitely had a blind-spot.
Also, had a new sysadmin been hired, he'd have no reason to turn the old machine on. Other people WERE aware of what was going on, including the people who would've trained a new guy. What's more, that machine was leased and would have been returned within a week or two, so he couldn't have repurposed it. And he couldn't have pulled any storage from it because that was part of the lease. And even if he could, it was a Sun box and the new one was an AIX box, so stuff wouldn't just run.
And here's another thing... say the new guy gets hired, never touches that machine because he's been told it's being returned in a few days. And then one of the devs turns it on and a week's work gets erased. They would've still blamed the new sysadmin even though he had nothing to do with it.
If you want funny, I actually knew the guy who ended up replacing me through a local Linux user's group. I know he was plagued by the same kind of crap. He tried to update the remote connections to use ssh rather than telnet and almost got fired for THAT.
This was not a good SysAdmin environment.