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[harinezumi]

The problem with running a system originally set up by someone else is that sometimes it's absolutely impossible to find crap. Spent the better part of a week (when I wasn't putting together RAID arrays or desperately trying to make sense of Apple's Open Directory, that is) trying to nuke an individual user's web space, which wasn't in the user's

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[kjpepper]

must be the day for interesting computery discoveries, though my eureka moment for the day is a little more "duh" than yours. :) (check my LJ for what I'm talking about here.)

[harinezumi]

Don't think they ever even covered Levenshtein Distances in my CS classes (then again, I never went past 200-level courses in CS).

But yeah, I keep on having to remind myself that logs should be the first place I look and not second to last (the last being, of course, the manual ^^).

[kjpepper]

manuals? they make those? ;)

[ketsugami]

All I can say is, screw "mounting" and symbolic links in all of their pestilant forms.

[harinezumi]

I'd be the first to throw them on the fire if they weren't so damn useful in certain cases ^^;

[platypuslord]

Why did this guy's webspace need nuking?

[harinezumi]

Because the guy hasn't worked here in over half a decade, and the site was correspondingly out of date. Apparently someone googled across it recently and reminded him of the site's existence.